Federal Republic of Nigeria Updated National Implementation Plan (NIP) for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

This Updated National Implementation Plan (NIP) aims at enforcing and improving national policy framework to address the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) issue, and the risks posed to human health and the environment by these hazardous chemicals and their wastes. This Plan is arranged into three chapters, with several annexes and it follows this structure: chapter 1 provides the introduction, purpose and structure of the NIP, describing the mechanism used to review and update the NIP and the stakeholder consultation process; chapter 2 contains the country profile including background information, general socio-demographical, political, economic, ecological data and information on the environmental management system in the country; chapter 3 includes the implementation strategy for the NIP and action Plans to allow the country the achievement of the 2001 Stockholm Convention obligations and additional objectives. This NIP presents the overview of the country’s import and consumption of hazardous chemicals and POPs in the development and economic sectors: industry, agriculture, health care delivery system, infrastructural development; provides for regulating the life-cycle management of chemicals and waste: manufacturing, transportation, storage, handling, reprocessing and destruction; defines an assessment and a classification of POPs and their related issues, including substances used for soil and seed treatment in agriculture, for control of disease vectors, for veterinary purposes and for the treatment of wood products.
Concerning Strategy and action Plan elements, this NIP focuses on: promoting proper management of stockpiles of electrical waste and electronic equipment; unintentionally produced POPs; cross-cutting priorities: increasing institutional capacity of government and governmental agencies; development of programmes for POPs monitoring; integration of international cooperation into national development Plans, in line with global best practices in environmental governance; integration of gender dynamics within government actions; application of polluter pays principle; research, development and monitoring measures; identification of contaminated sites; improving research and analysis of pesticides contamination in food and water intended for human consumption.