This document discusses factors that affect the policy environment in Nigeria. It examines the political and socio-economic context in which policies are formulated. Politically, the military era concentrated power in the executive and marginalized public participation. Currently, the executive still wields outsized influence over other actors and stakeholders. Socio-economically, factors like gender inequality, elite control of the political process, and an uninformed public limit wider participation in policymaking. The submission is that political actors, especially the executive, have a suppressing influence on other stakeholders in the Nigerian policy environment.