Tag Archives: Air pollution

The people of Nembe Basamri in Bayelsa State on Thursday, November 19, 2021 expressed concerns over the air toxicity following prolonged exposure to gas and crude oil leaks from a nearby oil well operated by Aiteo Eastern Exploration Company. Oil spill site The oil firm had reported a leak from an oil well at its Santa Barbra South field within ...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says residents of the South-South Zone need special attention due to air pollution in the area. Soot spreading over a neighbourhood in Port Harcourt, Rivers State NEMA’s Director-General, Mr Mustapha Ahmed, stated this at the start of the 3rd Biennial Regional Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Nigeria on Tuesday, November 16, 2021, in ...

A Professor of Environmental Management and Control, Prof. Christian Madu, has urged the federal and state governments to strengthen all existing emission control laws to check air pollution. Cars cause a lot of air pollution Madu, who is of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), gave the advice in an interview in Enugu on Sunday, September 19, 2021. He said ...

An Indonesian court ordered on Thursday, September 16, 2021 President Joko Widodo and other senior government officials to improve the hazardous air quality of the capital Jakarta after finding them guilty of environmental negligence in a civil lawsuit. Air pollution in Jakarta The citizen lawsuit was filed in 2019 against the president, the ministers of health, environment, and home affairs, ...

The COVID-19 lockdown and travel restrictions led to a dramatic short-lived fall in emissions of key air pollutants in 2020, especially in urban areas. Many city dwellers saw blue skies instead of the pollution cloud. But the reduction was not uniformly spread across all regions or all types of pollutants. And many parts of the world still fell short of ...

Air pollution results from the atmospheric pollution which are deleterious to the human health and our planet too. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that every year, air pollution is responsible for nearly seven million deaths around the globe. Children exposed to air pollution. The WHO says that more than one in four deaths of children under five years ...

The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) on Thursday, August 26, 2021 shut down the operations of two steel producing factories and issued warnings to others located at Ikorodu for environment-unfriendly activities. A steel factory in the Odonla community polluting the air. Photo credit: Adeola Oladipupo The companies, Sun Flag Steel Limited and Top Steel Nigeria Limited, were ordered to ...

It is 10am on Saturday and Odonla Community, a suburb of Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos is awake, and the neighbourhood is bustling with human activities. The atmosphere has however become cloudy after another night of steel production by factories located around the community. But it is not a cloud for rain, it is a pollution-induced cloud. Factory in ...

The National Environmental Standards and Regulation Enforcement Agency (NESREA) says it is collaborating with Clarity Movement Co. to deploy new technology to monitor air quality in the country. Prof. Aliyu Jauro, Director-General of NESREA Director-General of the agency, Prof Aliyu Jauro, disclosed this in a statement on Friday, June 11, 2021 in Abuja. Jauro explained that using the clarity sensors ...

The UK Government has released a publication containing statistics showing the trends in concentrations of five air pollutants using a variety of metrics for the period 1987 to 2020 including Nitrogen Dioxide, Ozone and Particulate matter. The UK Government has released an annual update of data on concentrations of major air pollutants Nitrogen Dioxide Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is a gas that is ...