Environmental Sustainability and Health

Ajegunle is located in Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government of Lagos state, it is a densely populated town in Lagos popularly known as AJ or AJ CITY. HSE Research blog visited Ajegunle to assess the level of environmental and social degradation in the town.

Open defecation is the practice of people defecating outside and not into a designated toilet. According to the United Nations Some 2.5 billion people worldwide do not have adequate toilets and among them, One billion defecate in the open

Solid wastes commonly referred to as trash or garbage in the United State and refuse or rubbish in Britain and Nigeria is a waste consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public, examples of these wastes are food and kitchen waste, paper, glass, plastic bottles, nylon, fabric etc.

From Lagos to Enugu down to Kano and most major cities in Nigeria today we see so many risky behavior displayed by most road users which makes one wonder are these road users aware of the dangers of their action to their own life and the life of others, or are they simply ignorant of the risk involved in what they do, or they simply just don’t care.

Every were we look today in Nigeria we find people hawking various commodities from electronic gadgets such as phone and  phone accessories, groceries, clothes, shoes,  food products such as cooked rice, beans, garri, tea or coffee etc.

Photo credit @ Every day in Nigeria across major cities and towns you find people in various market who help convey goods from one point to the other, either through the market or to a point where the goods would be loaded for transportation. In a city like Lagos were you find very big markets were commercial activities takes place daily you find these people either referred to as "job men" or could have other local names people in the market refer to them as.

For the first six years of his life Criscent Bwambale was one of 18 million people in the developing world currently estimated to be living with preventable blindness. He was born with cataracts, able to make out only vague areas of light and dark. In Uganda, where Criscent lives with his grandmother in a mud-built house surrounded by cocoa plantations, that means almost total exclusion from normal life. He couldn't go to school or play with other children his age, and had to rely on his family for even the most basic task.