Foreword:
Nigeria’s journey towards deliberate policy search for transparency, accountability, and good governance of her abundant natural resources in oil, gas and mining is directly linked to 2003 when the country signed onto the membership of the global Extractive Industries Transparencly Initiative (EITI). This resulted in the establishment of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in 2004 as a major component of the National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy (NEEDS) and the domestication of EITI principles under the NEITI Act 2007.