AUTOMOBILE EMISSIONS IN NIGERIA: AN XRAY OF ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS FOR CONTROL

Abstract

The Nigerian people and environment continue to face significant challenges due to automobile emissions. Some of these challenges include the risk of lung cancer, respiratory tract diseases, acid rain and global warming. There are few provisions in place to abate this problem but despite their availability, the inability to fully implement them is one of the greatest challenges to mitigating emissions. This work therefore highlighted the administrative agencies responsible for ensuring compliance with emission legislations and outlined the challenges hindering the performance of their administrative roles. To optimize the evaluations in this work, the doctrinal method of research was adopted. One of the identified impediments to the implementation of legislations, was the overlap of institutional responsibilities between administrative agencies. The paper found that, the legal provisions in place for the regulation of vehicularemissions were weak and ineffective.Therefore, the work recommendedamongst other things, the establishment of a centralized body to oversee vehicular emission regulation and a comprehensive review of emission control laws with a view to entrenching adequate penal sanctions.