Sheriffc:
The Infographic below shows the graphic visual representation of a report from World Economic Forum as posted by their Twitter handle @wef.

#Nigeria has four cities with Worst Air Pollution.

What is the danger of this?


https://mobile.twitter.com/wef/status/889980335156592640

0b100100111:


Onitsha, Aba, Umuahia

No wonder they don't live long in that part!

Pollution might also be the cause of there flat-heads, yam legs and stunted growth if researched.

sonnie10:
I weep for the educational system in Nigeria, even people who should know better are obviously as ignorant and as others who have never seen the four walls of a school.

The purpose of education is to ignite curiosity in any individual. When I saw this information I decided to check the primary source on WHO website and this is what I found out:

1) Only 12 cities in Nigeria were selected for the research. This includes Aba, Abakiliki, Enugu, Nnewi, Onitsha Umuahia, Orlu, Arfikpo, Owerri, Ile-ife, Kaduna and Nsukka. The reason is that the reasearch data was collected from;

Ngele and Onwu (2015), Reseach Journal of Chemical Sciences, Measurements of Ambient Air Fine and Coarse Particulate Matter in ten South-East Nigerian cities.

2)Lagos was not included in the research

3) only one SW and one northern Nigeria city was incuded

4) There figures from Ile-ife and Kaduna were obtained from manuscripts which were still in preparation.

5)The figure for Ile- ife is 103 ug/m3 and was obtained from measurement taken at the university campus. Note that, a more industrial city Nnewi has 57ug/m3 obviously due to the station were measurement was taken.

6) The figure for kaduna was taken at 2 industrial stations, the reason they have the high 423 ug/m3

7) Onitsha figure was obtained in a location referred to as "hot spot". That is at Niger bridge during high season when there is usually gridlock on the bridge with fume from so many vehicles.

Once again, I maintain that Nigeria education is useless going by the comments here. Because if you can browse Nairaland, you can equally browse WHO website to get the facts.

Koolking:
Umuahia made the top 20? This is so unbelievable.

What's polluting the air in Umuahia when it's not industrialized or heavily commercialized?

All the same, am surprised Lagos didn't make the list

ehispapa:
i wont argue with this....i always say all other African countries will over take us in term of development. i have been to onitsha and the dust pollution is alarming. Kaduna is very bad too , the dust is monumental all year round. what do you expect when you have open lands as streets all over Nigeria. Kaduna is just a large dusty open ground, its a pity we are a laughing stock to the world.

TheRealestGuy:


Mynd44 and lalasticlala, this guy deserves to be banned for life on this forum.

All he's after is ridiculing and insulting Igbos on this forum.

Please do the needful.

As for y'all always insulting tribes be it Hausa, Yoruba or Igbo, you are sick demented people but you dunno.

hollowpot15684:


ok whats polluting the air in Lagos ?

Markfemi2:
Dirty filthy biafrans only repping in narcotics and pollution

DerideGull:


Have you heard about diarrhea outbreak in Lagos as a result of recent flooding? Human rituals and unhygienic attendance by idiotic Yari.ba Nigerians.

APCsupporter:


which part of Kaduna are you describing?

laffwitmi:
Poto-poto ppl what do you have to say to this

0b100100111:


Onitsha, Aba, Umuahia

No wonder they don't live long in that part!

Pollution might also be the cause of there flat-heads, yam legs and stunted growth if researched.

APCsupporter:


did he mention any tribe? wait until he mentions your tribe before posting this rubbish.