Journal of Pollution

Achievers University, Owo, Nigeria

Publications

• Review Article   
  Our Air is Biscuit: Exploring Victims? Perspective of Factory Pollution in Oluyole, Ibadan
  Author(s): Ademuyiwa Olajumoke Elizabeth and Ikem Ujene*
  
  This study set out to investigate the knowledge of Oluyole residents about factory pollution; the health risks experienced by Oluyole residents; measures taken in protection from the factory pollution and; government responses to factory pollution in Oluyole industrial estate. The study was conducted in Oluyole Ibadan and it adopted a combined design of field and victim surveys. The study made use of qualitative data in identifying the effects of factory pollution on dwellers’ health and to also ascertained the victimological perspectives of the health problems vis-a-vis factory pollution in Oluyole Ibadan. Using ten indepth interviews and five key informant interviews, the data were qualitatively analyzed using the content analysis method and the adoption of verbatim quotation where necessary. The study identified that the the study respondents are knowledgeable about factory p.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2684-4958.22.5.266

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