Leveraging Legal and Regulatory Reforms in the Energy and Mining Sectors

The energy and mining sectors in Nigeria stands at a critical crossroads, shaped by constitutional amendments, evolving statutory frameworks, and global best practices aimed at enhancing transparency, sustainability, and local beneficiation. This course is tailored to equip participants with a deep understanding of recent constitutional and statutory changes affecting energy and solid mineral governance in Nigeria, including the devolution of regulatory powers to subnational entities. It also provides a comparative lens on international regulatory models that promote investment, environmental protection, and community participation in mining.

Participants will explore critical issues such as licensing and permitting processes, community development agreements, environmental and social safeguards, fiscal regimes, artisanal and small-scale mining formalization, and conflict management in resource-hosting communities.

The course highlights how subnational governments and institutions can design and implement responsive legal frameworks to attract investment, ensure resource accountability, and promote sustainable development.

Through expert-led lectures, real-world case studies, and policy simulations, the course provides actionable strategies for engaging stakeholders, improving intergovernmental coordination, and navigating the political economy of resource governance.

By the end of the programme, participants will be better equipped to understand and apply regulatory reforms, influence mining policy, and lead institutional innovation that ensures mining contributes meaningfully to economic diversification, job creation, and local development. Leveraging Legal and Regulatory Reforms in the Mining Sector is essential for forward-looking leaders committed to responsible resource governance in a democratic and decentralized framework.

Leveraging Legal and Regulatory Reforms in the Mining Sector is a specialized Executive Education Course designed for Ministers and Commissioners for Energy, Mining, Agriculture, Trade and Industry, Leadership of Legislatures, Director-Generals, Directors, Legislative Committee Chairpersons, Local Government Chairpersons, County Executives, and Chief Executives and senior managers in public and private establishments, as well as Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and NGOs.