Favour Nwaozuru

NOTES TO THE CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR ON LANGUAGE STYLE The quality of language used falls short of the Journal’s publishing standards and needs improvement. Paper contains several examples of run-on sentences and sentence fragments, as well as incorrect and superfluous use of punctuations which present a disjointed writing and makes for a confusing reading. In addition, sentences are written in a more conversational than academic style. See especially page 5, lines 12-20. ON REFERENCES Work has several instances of statutory and other authorities incompletely or inaccurately cited. Referencing should follow the OSCOLA method. ON PAPER ARRANGEMENT Paper does not contain section for recommendations. It would appear that 3 suggestions by way of recommendations are lumped in the conclusion. BRIEF ARTICLE CRITIQUE 1. Article made little effort to draw out the inadequacies of the laws summarized. 2. Paper does not comprehensively focus on pollution. Only four forms of pollution were explained and their causes and effects only tersely addressed. 3. Although author tried to focus on pollution, topic still remains broad. Pollution as an environmental problem is quite an extensive subject. 4. Paper mentions that in Nigeria, there is problem of non-compliance with laws and goes on to suggest that the government enact more laws. It also suggests that the government ensure strict compliance with the enacted laws without suggesting how to achieve this. 5. Recommendations are inadequate and insufficient to cover problem areas identified by the author. SUGGESTIONS FOR AUTHOR 1. Author may choose either a specific form of pollution or a particular polluted region in Nigeria to write about. 2. Author may choose to review or critique the existing environmental laws in Nigeria in order to point out their inadequacies and proffer workable solutions to them.