Introduction
The emerging consensus in the international development community favors environmental protection. Consequently, different developing countries have initiated public policies presumably aimed at protecting the environment and maintaining its integrity. The environmental policies in Ghana and Nigeria have failed to achieve their ostensible objectives. The failure is attributed to the sheer lack of a management framework to implement environmental protection. In other instances, there has not been a demonstrable commitment to effective management of environmental policies in both nations the developing countries. This appears to be the case in virtually all-African countries, especially nations like Ghana and Nigeria in West Africa. The lukewarm attitude toward environmental policies in the region stems partly from the fact that governments in Ghana and Nigeria cannot claim a bonafide ownership of those policies. The predominant style of development in Ghana and Nigeria over the past three decades has essentially been an imitation of the style practiced in Europe and the United states, both in general terms and with specific reference to technology and energy. (read full text…)