This act establishes the Nigeria institute of Soil Science charged with responsibility of regulating the profession of soil science. The part 1 of this document provides for the establishment and functions of the Nigeria institute of Soil Science. It lists the functions of the institution, which are to: prescribe and regulate the standards of academic qualification and practical skills to be attained by persons seeking to become registered as members, associates or fellows of the institute, as the case may be; regulate the practice of the profession for soil scientists; establish, update and maintain a register of soil science practitioners under this act according to their various ranks and to regulate the prerogatives and privileges pertaining to those ranks; ensure that soil science practitioners in Nigeria uphold the ethics of the profession and guarantee the sustainability of high quality soil; advance the education, science, technology and art of soil science and crop production in collaboration with zonal coordinating research institutes; promote rapid sustainability of high quality soil through scientific methods, and regulate all issues pertaining to soil management in Nigeria; and cooperate or affiliate with any relevant association and soil science body either locally or internationally.

This is an act to provide for the establishment of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency and related matters. The objectives of the Agency are to co-ordinate and implement the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan for Nigeria, establish a viable national operational organization that ensures a safe, timely, effective and appropriate response to major or disastrous oil pollution, identify high-risk areas as well as priority areas for protection and clean up, establish the mechanism to monitor and assist or where expedient direct the response, including the capability to mobilize the necessary resources to save lives, protect threatened environment, and clean up to the best practical extent of the impacted site etc.

The 2017 appropriation act highlights the various Expenditures for the national population commission

The purpose of a National Forest Policy will be to encourage and support an aggressive establishment of plantations of economic trees of both exotic species, such as teak and indigenous species; and foster the redirection of development resources such that forest lands are not allocated to other uses unless it is in the superior interest of the nation, conscientious efforts are made to expand the forest estate through new acquisitions by public and private agencies, the provision of forestry goods and services is vigorously pursued for and on behalf of all Nigerians, and state boundaries do not in any way hinder the development of forestry projects, movement of forest produce and personnel as well as allocation of other resources.

Vision 20:2020 is an articulation of the long-term intent to launch Nigeria on a path of sustained social and economic progress and accelerate the emergence of a truly prosperous and united Nigeria. Recognizing the enormous human and natural endowments of the nation, the blueprint is an expression of Nigeria’s intent to improve the living standards of her citizens and place the country among the Top 20 economies in the world with a minimum GDP of $900billion and a per capita income of no less than $4000 per annum. The economic transformation strategy for Nigeria vision 20:2020 is anchored upon three overarching thrusts which are: Creating the platform for success by urgently and immediately addressing the most debilitating constraints to Nigeria’s growth and competitiveness, forging ahead with diligence and focus in developing the fabric of the envisioned economy and developing and deepening the capability of the government to consistently translate national strategic intent into action and results by instituting evidence-based decision making in Nigeria’s public policy space.

The overall vision of the intervention program is to ensure sustainable access, availability and affordability of quality food to all Nigerians and to be a significant net provider of food to the global community. The short-term objective of significantly improving Nigeria’s agriculture productivity and the medium-term objectives of expanded large-scale production and improved storage/processing capacity as well as required market infrastructure to achieve food stability.

This act amends the Niger Delta Development Commission (Establishment, etc.) Act, No 6, 2000 to increase the funding of the Commission for effective discharge of its duties.

This is a law assented by the Executive Governor of Oyo state of Nigeria, it makes provisions for the levying and collection of the charges on land and other matters connected therewith.

An Act to enable effect to be given in the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade. The objective of this convention is to promote shared responsibility and cooperative efforts among parties in the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals in order to protect human health and the environment from potential harm and to contribute to their environmentally sound use, by facilitating information exchange about their characteristics, by providing for a national decision-making process on their import and export and by disseminating these decisions to Parties.

The Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) is a strategic plan that highlights the government’s socio-economic and development objectives and priorities from 2011 to 2013. It also explains the plans to achieve these objectives with key assumptions on revenue projections, strategic objectives behind the expenditure framework, and fiscal targets over the medium term.

This is an Act to establish the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria to regulate and control the practice of the marketing profession and for matters connected therewith. Part 1 is concerned with the establishment of the Institute, part 2 covers the financial provisions; part 3 covers the registrar and the register etc.

This document provides regulation on control of import of plants and authorized officers: the person for the time being holding office as federal director of agricultural research (in these regulations referred to as “the director”) shall be an authorized officer for these regulations; and in addition, all officers under his control (not below the rank or grade of assistant technical officer) designated by the director, from time to time, in writing under his hand shall likewise be authorized officers for the purposes aforesaid and the persons holding office as authorized officers under any regulations hereby revoked shall, on the commencement of these regulations, be deemed to have been duly appointed as authorized officers under these regulations.

This is an Act to make provisions for regulating the importation of articles to control plant diseases and pests. Regulation 6 concerns diseases and pests, it states that where plants, seeds, soil, containers, straw or other packing materials or any other similar goods or things are on importation found or suspected to be infected with any plant disease or pest, an authorized officer may order them to be destroyed or may direct that they shall not be imported until they have been treated to his satisfaction for the removal of the plant disease or pest.

This is an Act to establish an Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund into which shall be subscribed a certain sum to provide guarantees for loans granted for agricultural purposes by any bank. Regulation 3 clearly states the functions of the board including the monitoring of operation and evaluating the progress of the scheme, advising the minister as to changes required to improve the operation of the fund, performing such other duties relating to the fund as may be referred to it by the Minister, publishing names of defaulters of loans granted under this act in the national newspapers, approve the operational budget of the fund, and soliciting the assistance of government loan recovery.

This is an Act to establish the Nigerian Ports Authority with the functions of providing and operating necessary facilities in ports and maintaining, improving and regulating the use of the ports; and to provide for matters connected therewith. Regulation 7 outlines the functions of the board. It will provide and operate, in the Ports, such facilities as appear to it best calculated to serve the interest of Nigeria, maintain, improve and regulate the use of the Ports, ensure the efficient management of Port operations, optimal allocation and use of resources, diversification of sources of revenue and guaranteeing adequate returns on its investments, in order to contribute effectively to the wellbeing of the Nigerian society, provide, for the approaches to all Ports and the territorial waters of Nigeria, such pilotage services and lights, marks and other navigational services and aids, including cleaning, deepening and improving of all waterways, manage, supervise and control or take part in the management, supervision or control of any company or undertaking in which the Authority is interested, by reason of shareholding or otherwise and for that purpose appoint and remunerate directors, accountants, other experts and agents, provide and operate such other services as the Minister may, from time to time, require, and carry out such other activities which are connected with or incidental to its other functions under this Act. While Regulation 8 details the powers of the Authority.

This is an Act to provide for the control and prevention of animal diseases, with the objective of preventing the introduction and spread of infectious and contagious diseases among animals, hatcheries and poultries in Nigeria.

This is an Act to make provisions for the importation and management of bees and apicultural material. Regulation 4 is for the control of the spread of disease. It states that the President may, for the prevention of the spread of disease or parasitic state among bees and for providing a measure of uniform control in the Federation, authorize the Ministry to make regulations generally for the purposes of this Act, and effective throughout the Federation; and without prejudice to the generality of the power hereby conferred, regulations may provide for obtaining information as to or from any person who keeps bees, and relative to the occurrence of disease or parasitic state among bees, for determining whether any bees or apicultural material are infected, or have been exposed to infection, with any disease or parasitic state and for the destruction or treatment of bees and apicultural material ascertained to be so infected or to have been exposed to such infection.

This document provides for the Installation of anti‐pollution equipment, Wastewater parameters, treatment of effluent, and additional sectorial effluent limitation treatment. The first schedule outlines the important wastewater parameters for selected industrial classifications. The second schedule covers the Effluent limitation guidelines in Nigeria for all categories of industries.

This document gives information on the status of biodiversity and its contribution to varied sectors of the Nigerian economy including tourism, agriculture, water resources, health, commerce and industrial development. It shows how biodiversity impacts the lives and livelihoods of the people as well, the value of biodiversity to Nigerians and the linkages it has on various sectors of the Nigerian economy was vividly shown. The threats to biodiversity, causes and consequences of biodiversity loss in Nigeria were also identified and analysed. It outlines the Policy, Legal, and Institutional Frameworks on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as an integral part of the national policy on the environment. The National Actions to Achieve the Priority Targets and Strategies will be implemented within a period of 5 years (2016 – 2020) and will involve working with a wide range of relevant MDAs as shown in the table below. Applications of the NBSAP to Sub-national entities are contained in the last column of the table.

This is an Act to provide for the exportation of certain foodstuff from Nigeria and the trial of offenders by the Federal High Court.