PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION IN NIGERIA: AN ADVOCACY FOR COLLABORATIVE ACTION AGAINST ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Abstract

This paper was developed from the background of the importance of a healthy environment for human life anddevelopment. As a result, environmental protection becomes a sine qua non for a healthy living, and one avenuefor environmental protection is environmental litigation, which cannot be successful if all persons involved in theprocess do not collaborate. The paper therefore, argues that for collaborative action to be achieved inenvironmental litigation in Nigeria, popular ignorance of the nature of the environment as well as the causes andeffects of its degradation and pollution has to be adequately addressed. It argues also that official corruptionwhich restrains many persons involved in environmental litigation from collaborative action should equally befought head. The methodology of the paper is doctrinal.