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Environmental Issues in Nigeria’s Commercialisation and Privatisation Policy

The necessity of privatisation as a policy for promoting efficient utilisation of national resources and economic growth in now widely recognized. Also in recent years, the concerns about environmental consequences of the growth and development have increased. The real policy challenges is how to integrate environmental concerns in commercialisation and privatisation policy. Nigeria embraced commercialisation and privatization as a development strategy in the mid–1980s, this period has also witnessed heightened concerns about the environment. The paper demonstrates that there is cause for conc…