- Volume 13, Number 2 (2025)
PHYSICO-CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF RIVER NIGER WATER QUALITY AT AJAOKUTA, KOGI STATE
Musa Adeyemi Ibrahim
Water from the River Niger in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, Nigeria, was tested for physico-chemical characteristics. Temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO), electrical conductivity (EC), total hardness, total alkalinity, magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca) and chloride were the variables studied (Cl). During the rainy and dry seasons, water samples were taken in triplicate from six separate locations along the river and were subjected to physicochemical analyses using APHA standardized procedures. The results were compared to World Health Organization (WHO) and Nigerian Standards for Drinking Quality Water (NSDQW). Consequently, the majority of the parameters examined were below the WHO's recommended safe drinking water threshold. However,...
EFFECT OF SOIL FERTILITY ON PEARL MILLET (PENNISETUM GLAUCUM) YIELD IN KANO, NIGERIA
Mustapha Bello Abdullahi, Amina Yusuf Garba, Emmanuel Chinedu Okonkwo
The deteriorating soil fertility and land deprivation have particularly affected the farms that peasant farmers depend on and therefore, threaten their food security. The research aimed at assessing the fertility status; evaluate the nutrient supply and fertilizer recommendation for millet production. Millet farm was purposively selected within which 1 square kilometre was delineated and 100 grids were formed, therefore 10 grids were systematically selected for soil sampling. The soil samples were collected in each grid using composite sampling techniques and then taken to laboratory for the analyses of some soil fertility parameters. The results were analysed using descriptive statistic and,...
ASSESSING THE PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF URBAN WASH INFRASTRUCTURE IN LAGOS, NIGERIA
Aisha Nneka Mohammed, Samuel Chukwudi Okeke
The study examined water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions in Lagos State University, Yaba College of Technology, and Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education tertiary institutions in parts of the Lagos metropolis using field observation and social survey. A total of 220 structured questionnaires were administered to students and staff across the institutions using a random sampling technique. Descriptive statistics and ANOVA was employed to analyse the data. The result shows that approximately 54% of the respondents are acquainted with the WaSH program. The significant water supply sources include borehole and public piped borne water representing 86 and 13%, respectively. About 96,...
COMMUNITY-BASED FOREST PROTECTION IN OFFINSO NORTH, GHANA: SUCCESSES AND SETBACKS
Emmanuel Asante Kojo
The paper examines the viability of community forestry and how community participation affects the effectiveness of forest resource security and management. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques with stakeholders’ observations and perceptions of managers’ responses to major threats of forest commons were employed in this study. The paper establishes forest security through comparative analysis and discourse of solely government management intervention, solely community (private) management intervention and government-community partnership for forest management arrangements which are occurring in the Offinso Forest District of Ghana. The paper concludes that, community involvement in forest management interventions delivers better protection of forest commons; and the...