The objectives of the environmental impact assessment are to establish, before a decision is taken by any person, authority, corporate body or unincorporated body, including the Government of the Federation, State or Local government intending to undertake or authorize the undertaking of any activity, those matters that may likely or to a significant extent affect the environment or have an environmental effect on those activities and which shall first be taken into account, to promote the implementation of appropriate policy in all Federal Lands (however acquired) States and local government areas, consistent with all laws and decision‐making processes through which the goal and objective in paragraph (a) of this section may be realized and to encourage the development of procedures for information exchange, notification and consultation between organs and persons when proposed activities are likely to have significant environmental effects on boundary or trans‐State or on the environment of bordering town and villages.

The Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA), established by Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act 19 of 1995 (the Act) is charged with the sole responsibility for nuclear safety and radiological protection regulation in Nigeria (Article 4 of the Act.) In this regard, the NNRA is empowered to licence practices involving handling, transportation and storage of radioactive source. This document provides requirement for accreditation for land transportation of radioactive sources.

The National Youth Policy recognises the broader policy context in which it has been formulated and shall operate. It is guided largely by other national policy initiatives and it is also reflective of international programmes and conventions. This policy is based on a commitment to extensive consultations, respect for diversity of interests and opinion, input and consensus from the grassroots and local communities in the spirit of national ownership. It affirms and upholds the fundamental human rights of all youth, including their rights to fundamental freedoms, development opportunities and full participation in the democratic and governance processes, as well as in community and civic decision-making and development agenda.

This is an Act to restrict the use of foreign vessels in domestic coastal trade to promote the development of indigenous tonnage and to establish a cabotage vessel financing fund and for related matters.

This guideline document seeks to facilitate the establishment and development of national capacities to implement, manage, monitor, establish adequate information systems, develop expert human resources in cabotage administration and enforcement and generally promote the efficient operation of the cabotage regime. These objectives would be achieved by the development of guidelines, standards, codes of practice, and monitoring capabilities for the operators, enforcement agencies, and financial institutions, establishment of a comprehensive and up-to-date database, infrastructure for information exchanges upon which cabotage administration and enforcement can be processed, promotion of regular review of administrative and policy measures on cabotage and enforcement can be processed and establishment and strengthening of national and institutional cabotage implementation mechanisms.

This document highlights the guidelines on the registration for a national carrier, shipping companies/agents and cabotage operators

This document focuses on key issues that revolve around how emerging trends in the global maritime industry affects the shipping and maritime sector in Nigeria, domestic factors that will influence the sector and progress on the drive to mitigate challenges within and pertaining to the sector.

This document provides for the merchant shipping which comprises the foreign going ships, near coastal ships and need to have radio operators, doctors and cooks on foregoing ships.

This document provides regulations for summoning of a marine board. It emphasizes that when any investigation has been ordered, the minister shall summon the board by summons as in form I in the schedule to these regulations and he shall, at the same time, cause notice of the siting as in form 2 in the schedule to these regulations to be served upon the attorney general and upon the owner, master and officers of the ship and upon any other person who in his opinion ought to be served.

These rules apply to Nigerian and other ships while they are within any port in Nigeria provided that these rules shall not apply to a ship by reason of it being within a port in Nigeria if the ship is in the port due to weather or stress or any other circumstances that the owner cannot prevent or forestall.

These rules apply to Nigerian and other ships of any other nationality while they are within any port in Nigeria for reasons unconnected with stress of weather or any other circumstance which the master, owner can prevent and forestall. The document provides classification of ships (passengers’ ships and non-passenger ships).

These rules apply to all ships carrying a timber deck cargo. Part II of this document contains additional rules that apply to steamers marked with timber load lines when loaded beyond the maximum depth to which they would for the time being be entitled under the load line rules to be loaded if they were not marked with timber load lines.

Where necessary, the measure of tonnage of a ship in Nigeria shall be ascertained in accordance with these regulations. Its application for registration of ship in Nigeria shall be made by the owner to the Minister in a form prescribed by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency.

These regulations apply to all Nigeria sea-going ships except fishing boats and pleasure yachts. Regulation 3 provides that every person to order a ship to which these regulations apply constructed shall create, during construction, a plan of the ship on a scale not smaller than 1 in 100, to be submitted to a surveyor of ships on a day not later than the day on which the keel of the ship is laid, showing clearly the proposed arrangement of the crew accommodation in the ship and its proposed position in relation to other spaces therein.

These regulations apply in relation to any certificate of competence issued under the act and to any other certificate of competence issued under the act and to any other certificate or document issued under the Act other than one certifying that a person is qualified as an officer.

The document is concerned with the health of seafarers. It provides that a ship must carry a ship’s medical guide adopted by the Minister. The medical guide explains how the contents of a medicine chest are to be used and also permits someone that is not a doctor to care for the sick or injured on board on a ship.

These regulations apply to every sea going vessel whether publicly owned or privately owned. It is engaged in the transport of cargo or passengers for the purpose of trade and registered in Nigeria.

These regulations apply to Nigerian ships only. It provides for the responsibilities of companies, masters and others; safe manning documents, hours of work, general duty of company employers and masters, duties of a master and seafarer, schedules of duties and need to record; exception for emergencies, watch keeping arrangements, watch keeping arrangements in port, watch keeping arrangements in port for ship carrying hazardous cargo, documents carried on board, inspection of non-Nigerian ships, power to detain and penalties.

The purpose of this plan is to develop and articulate an effective work programme with the purpose of identifying the initiatives, strategies, capabilities, competencies, data, partnerships and resources required to mobilize stakeholders, enablers and drivers towards achieving the core mandate of NIMASA, restructuring and repositioning the agency and the Maritime sector in Nigeria with a view to unveiling, strengthening and transforming her ocean economy for the benefit of all stakeholders and for the socio-economic growth & development of the country.

The Nigerian Ports Authority Act 1999, Cap. 126 law of the federation of Nigeria, 2004 vests the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) with the responsibilities and functions of providing and operating necessary facilities in ports, maintaining, improving and regulating the use of the port and to provide for matters connected therewith. This document describes the functions of the authority, port operations (marine) by Nigerian Ports Authority, procedure for joint boarding of ships for rummaging, voyage reconciliation, and miscellaneous bills.