International Journal of Development and Sustainability ISSN: 2186-8662 – www.isdsnet.com/ijds Volume 7 Number 2 (2018): Pages 639-650 ISDS Article ID: IJDS18012003 Towards integrating corporate social responsibility in Nigeria environmental and social sector as a panacea for curbing infrastructural deficit Eni Eja Alobo 1,2* , Kevin Ukeomure Udungeri 1 1 Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Nigeria 2 Faculty of Law, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Abstract Corporate social responsibility (CSR) denotes the responsive and developmental strategies adopted by corporations or firms in the conduct of their businesses. A firm is said to be in conformity with CSR if it policies are principled, sociable and advantageous to community in terms of development. This article examined the meaning of CSR in relation to Governance and Development. It explored CSR as Mechanism for community Development and growth from the standpoint that a company’s influence on the public is not limited to the economics of making returns for investments alone, but entails fair labour relations, totality of social services in host community and sustainable environmental practices. The supposition that is distillable from our analysis is that if CSR is effectively harnessed and implemented there will be exponential growth in Social development and environmental sustainability.Conclusions and implications for the evolution of normative and institutional framework in line with contemporary global roadmap have been underscored and recommendations for future research are discussed. Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Environmental and Social Sector; Infrastructural Deficit; Nigeria * Corresponding author. E-mail address: aloboenie@yahoo.com Published by ISDS LLC, Japan | Copyright © 2018 by the Author(s) | This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cite this article as: Alobo, E.E. and Udungeri, K.U. (2018), “Towards integrating corporate social responsibility in Nigeria environmental and social sector as a panacea for curbing infrastructural deficit”, International Journal of Development and Sustainability, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 639-650.