Environmental Protection and the Role of National Policies and Guidelines in Nigeria
Bibliographic record
Abstract
National policies generally are meant to guide the government in decision making towards the achievement of a specific result. In desiring to improve on the environment, the Nigerian government has put in place a number of legislation and formulated policies and guidelines on the environment. However, whether there is a corresponding result is a subject matter of concern for all advocates of the right to protected environment in Nigeria. The article seeks to explore the contribution of the National Policy on the Environment (NPE) and other guidelines for the protection of the environment in Nigeria especially considering that they are mere action plans and policy statements. The article observes that the NPE and the guidelines are very comprehensive, all-embracing and ambitious. However, there is a significant gap between the guidelines, the legislation and their implementation in Nigeria. The article observes that the implementation of the NPE and the relevant guidelines presents enormous challenges as a result of the weak constitutional source from which the guidelines and policies were derived. Besides, the article finds that the objectives of the guidelines and the NPE have not been satisfactorily achieved as a result of a number of other factors which include corruption, lack of partnership with non-governmental stakeholders, the challenge of overlap among the administrative bodies and failure of the government to provide an effective medium for involving the public in the negotiation of policies and strategies for the protection of the environment.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".