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 and development. As a result, environmental protection becomes a sine qua non for a healthy living, and one avenue for environmental protection is environmental litigation, which cannot be successful if all persons involved in the process do not collaborate. The paper therefore, argues that for collaborative action to be achieved in environmental litigation in Nigeria, popular ignorance of the nature of the environment as well as the causes and effects of its degradation and pollution has to be adequately addressed. It argues also that official corruption which restrains many persons involved in environmental litigation from collaborative action should equally be fought head. The methodology of the paper is doctrinal.