SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND LANDUSE PLANNING OF INFORMAL AUTOMOBILE WORKSHOPS IN OSOGBO, NIGERIA

Abstract It is against the background of the increasing incidence and indiscriminate springing up of informal automobile workshops in virtually every open space in Nigerian cities that this study evaluates the spatial distribution of informal automobile workshops in Osogbo. This is with a view to identifying planning strategies for addressing the seemingly uncontrollable proliferation of […]

HEALTH IMPACT OF LEACHATES FROM ILLEGAL DUMPSITES: CASE STUDY OF KUBWA ABUJA, NIGERIA

Abstract This study examines the perilous impact of leachate’s foray on Kubwa-Abuja’s environment; with the purpose to enlightening city’s inhabitants from dumping refuse indiscriminately on unauthorized sites which may proactively have composite consequences on the environment and people living around the illegal dump-sites. Kubwa-Abuja area has three conspicuous illegal dumpsites which were designated as zones […]