NIGERIA'S INTENDED NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS IMPLEMENTATION AND TRANSITION TO NET ZERO CARBON EMISSION IN POST PARIS ERA Okoh, A. I. Sadiq Department of Political Science Benue State University Makurdi Daniel Mulumo. College of Advanced and Professional Studies Orokpo, Ogbole Francis E, PhD Department of Public Administration The Federal Polytechnic Idah, Kogi State Abstract This paper examines complexities inherent in Nigeria's implementation of the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) submitted at COP21. Nigeria's INDC aim at reducing greenhouse gas emission nationally but works at cross-purposes with Nigeria's Vision 20: 2020 of becoming the twentieth most developed nations by 2020 using fossil energy as its driver. Whilst biomass is the primary energy source for over 70% of the population who depend on it for domestic purposes. Overcoming this complexity requires trade-offs between economic growth and ecological sustainability. Data used to arrive at our findings is quantitative based on Nigeria Energy Calculator modeling tools for analysis of energy demand and supply in the country. The study finds that with business as usual scenario, GHG emissions will be high as structural crises at different scales act as impediments to efficiently monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon emissions. That, market mechanism can usher in a new dawn of green development yet are incapable of holistically addressing issues of externalities in an economy where biomass consumption, fast growing population, declining crude oil revenue, institutional debilities and inadequacy of data are rampart. This places serious burden on government's plan of translating the political pledge of Paris into climate action. The conclusion reached is that a new blueprint termed Food Sufficiency Economy (FSE) will usher in a zero carbon economy. FSE is a convergence of food sovereignty and sufficiency economy in line with Africa’s eco- biocommunitarianism perspective yet slanted toward Climate-Smart Agriculture as building block for a low carbon and climate resilient future.