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1. Library Resource

   

   National Inland Waterways Authority Act.

   An Act to establish the National Inland Waterways Authority with responsibility, among other things, to improve and develop inland waterways for Navigation.

   Legislation

   Nigeria, Africa, Western Africa

   This Act provides for the administration and management of inland waterways of Nigeria, establishes the National Inland Waterways Authority, defines the Authority's functions, powers and internal organization, provides for the use of land adjacent to waterways, prescribes offences relating to obstruction and pollution of waterways and prescribes penalties for such offences.The Act consists of 30 sections, which are divided into six Parts, and is completed by four Schedules.The National Inland Waterways Authority is established under section 3 as a body corporate.

2. Library Resource

   

   African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Revised version).

   المعاهدة الافريقية للمحافظة على الطبيعة والموارد الطبيعية.

   International Conventions or Treaties

   Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Benin, Nigeria, Mauritius, Mauritania, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, Eswatini, Ghana, Congo, Guinea, Ethiopia, Comoros, Eritrea, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Libya, Lesotho, Uganda, Somalia, Madagascar, Central African Republic, Tanzania, Botswana, Senegal, Chad, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Gambia, Mali, Burundi, Sao Tome and Principe, Djibouti, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Rwanda, Morocco, Niger, South Africa, Togo, Tunisia, Côte d'Ivoire, Sudan, Cameroon, Kenya, Middle Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Northern Africa, Western Asia, Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   environment

   fisheries

   land management

   natural resources management

   The Contracting States, in the belief that objectives set out in the Preamble would be better achieved by amending the 1968 Algiers Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources by expanding elements related to sustainable development, have agreed on measures to enhance environmental protection, to foster the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources; and to harmonize and coordinate policies in these fields with a view to achieving ecologically rational, economically sound and socially acceptable development policies and programs for the Convention area.

3. Library Resource

   

   Land Use (Validation of Certain Laws, etc.) Act 1979 (No. 94 of 1979).

   An Act to regularise the issuance of regulations by State Governments pursuant to the Land Use Act.

   Legislation

   Nigeria, Africa, Western Africa

   public ownership

   land law

   Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Land Use Act or any other enactment, all Laws, and subsidiary legislation made at any time between the commencement of the Land Use Act and 30th September 1979 by any public officer of a State shall be deemed to have been validly made and shall have effect as if they had been made under or pursuant to the Land Use Act and accordingly, shall hereafter continue to have effect according to their tenor and intendment as if they were regulations made under or pursuant to section 46 of that Act.

4. Library Resource

   

   Interim Guidelines and Standards for Environmental Pollution Control in Nigeria.

   Nigeria, Africa, Western Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   environment

   fisheries

   waste (abuse)

   Interim guidelines and standards relate to six areas of environmental pollution control are issued by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA). These guidelines and standards relate to six (6) areas of environmental pollution control: Effluent limitations (ii) Water quality for industrial water uses at point of in-take (iii) Industrial emission limitations (iv) Noise exposure limitations (v) Management of solid and hazardous wastes (vi) Pollution abatement in industries.

5. Library Resource

   

   National Agricultural Land Development Authority Act.

   An Act to establish a National Agricultural Land Development Authority to provide, among other things, strategic public support for land development.

   Legislation

   Nigeria, Africa, Western Africa

   rural population

   There is hereby established in the Presidency an authority to be known as the National Agricultural Land Development Authority which shall be a body corporate. The management of the Authority established by section 1 of this Decree shall be vested in a Governing Board.