This provides for the close season for Tobacco cultivation. In regulation number three it states that the period between the 24th day of December of each year and the 14th day of March of the subsequent year shall be known as the close season for the cultivation of Tobacco and that every person holding, occupying or using land shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that no tobacco weed shall be planted and that no growth from the roots of the previous tobacco crop or tobacco seed dropped on the land shall become established during a close season.

This is a law to establish the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency and for other matters incidental thereto or connected therewith (1997 No 9). The agency shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and shall have the power to sue and be sued in its corporate name and to acquire, hold and dispose of its movable and immovable property for the purpose of carrying out its functions under this Law. Some of the functions of the agency are to advise the State Government on all environmental management policies, give direction to the affairs of the agency on all environmental matters, carry out public enlightenment and educate the general public on sound methods of environmental sanitation and management and so on.

An Act to provide for merchant shipping and for related matters. The agency of government established and responsible for maritime safety, administration and security shall be the implementing agency for this Act. It emphasizes that no ship shall operate commercially in or from the waters of Nigeria unless the ship is a registered Nigerian ship.

These regulations state that no industry or facility shall release hazardous or toxic substances into the air, water or land of Nigeria’s ecosystems beyond limits approved by the agency.

This document contains 11 regulations concerned about a registered Nigerian ship. No topping shall be made demanded or received for or by any ship, tanker, or vehicle in which crude oil is carried within or outside any load port or terminal in Nigeria.

This document provides the regulation on duties of licensees and leases, duties of managers, and duties of employees.

This decree provides for the licensing of fishing crafts and the regulation of fishing on the inland waters of Nigeria. It emphasizes that no person shall operate a motor fishing craft within the inland waters of Nigeria unless a license in respect of that craft has been issued to the owner or operator of the craft under this decree.

This is an act to provide for the promotion of maritime safety and security, protection in the maritime environment, shipping registration and commercial shipping, maritime labour, the establishment of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency; and for related matters. The objectives of this act are to promote the development of indigenous commercial shipping in the international and coastal shipping trade, regulate and promote maritime safety, security, marine pollution and maritime labour. These objectives will be achieved through the establishment of a National Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, the merger of the National Maritime Authority and Joint Maritime Labour Industrial Council, the transfer of the ownership of land and assets currently vested in the National Maritime Authority and the Joint Maritime Labour Industrial Council to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency; and the abolition of the Office Of Government Inspector of Shipping created under merchant shipping (delegation of powers) notice, merchant shipping act, and the transfer of the functions and powers in that notice to The National Maritime Administration and Safety Agency.

The Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation Decree stipulates the law guiding the establishment of the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation, its functions, powers, and staff composition.

This is a law to establish the Cross River State Investment Promotion Bureau to encourage and promote investment in the Cross River state of Nigeria and for other matters connected therewith. It establishes the Cross River State Investment Promotion Bureau as a body corporate and defines its functions and powers. It outlines the processes involved in the registration of enterprises, investment policy and settlement of disputes between an investor and the Cross River State Government. The Bureau will encourage, promote the co-ordinate investment in the Cross River State economy, register and keep records of all enterprises to which this law applies, identify specific projects and invite interested investors’ participation in those projects, and advise the Cross River State Government on policy matters.

This is an Act to determine the limits of the territorial waters of Nigeria and for other matters connected therewith. It defines territorial water as every part of the open sea within thirty nautical miles of the coast of Nigeria (measured from a low watermark) or of the seaward limits of inland waters. The sections are concerned with the extension of limits of territorial waters, jurisdiction in respect of offences committed in territorial waters and restriction on the trial of persons other than Nigerian citizens for offences committed in territorial waters.

The decree extends the territorial waters of Nigeria to 30 nautical miles (from 12 nautical miles) of the coast of Nigeria and the document also amends the territorial water decree of 1967.

This is an Act to delimit the exclusive economic zone of Nigeria being an area extending up to 200 nautical miles seawards from the coasts of Nigeria. Within this Zone, and subject to universally recognized rights of other States (including land-locked States), Nigeria would exercise certain sovereign rights, especially with the conservation or exploitation of the natural resources (minerals, living species, etc.) of the sea bed, its subsoil and suprajacent waters and the right to regulate by law the establishment of artificial structures and installations and marine scientific research, amongst other things. Its section is concerned with the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone of Nigeria.

This is a law for the preservation and control of forests. The law provides for forest reserves and declaration of protected forests, the effect of certain things done under forestry ordinance. It also outlines the regulations on the administration of forest reserves and protected forests.

These regulations specify provisions concerning forest rights, protection of forest reserves and produce, fires, licenses for the taking of forest products, fees, and royalties, marking and registration, and timber floating.

The 2017 appropriation act highlighting the various Expenditures for the independent corrupt practices and related offences commission

This law consist of 56 sections, divided into 6 parts, and 3 Schedules: Sections 1 to 4 are preliminary provisions, sections 4 to 11 provide for the protection of animals; sections 12 to 32 make provisions for the declaration of game reserves; sections 33 to 43 makes provision to restrict hunting and the killing of fish; and finally, the remaining provisions of this law deal with enforcement, prosecution, and regulation-making powers of the Minister.

This law outlines the provisions for issuing hunting licenses. An applicant may apply to kill or capture a number of any species of specially protected animal or protected animal up to a maximum number specified in the law.

The document provides for the payment of trophy fees for prohibited animals. It defines the form of a free disposal permit, identification of a trophy animal, transfer of trophies, the division of a trophy animal, and a trophy dealer’s license.

This permit authorizes the holder to own the captive animal for twelve months provided that adequate provisions are made for the health and welfare of the animal. If the animal is transferred to another person, the transferee shall own a valid license to possess such a live animal. No person or persons shall keep in captivity any live prohibited animal, a specially protected animal, a protected animal, or exotic animal without a license to do so issued per the provisions of these regulations.