Using Landsat images covering the area for 1986, 2000 and 2016, and social surveys (questionnaire administration and key informant interviews), this study examined change in the form and attributes of areas under different land cover in a relatively homogenous Yoruba ethnic group community in Southwestern Nigeria.
The authors study how onshore oil spills affect neonatal and infant mortality by combining spatial data from the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor with Demographic and Health Surveys. They compare siblings born to the same mother, conceived before and after a nearby oil spill, to identify a causal effect. The results show that nearby oil spills that occur before conception increase neonatal mortality by 38.3 deaths per 1,000 live births, which corresponds to an increase of around 100% on the sample mean.
In this paper, case studies of three famines that occurred in rural northwest Nigeria during the latter half of the twentieth century are presented.
Using mixed method of narrative accounts from 36 interviews, a survey (n = 453) and 6 focus group discussions, the paper investigates women's gendered experiences with flash floods in the coastal city of Lagos, Nigeria, specifically the July 2011 flood.
The results from this study indicates that population and affluence are the most important anthropogenic drivers of environmental impacts in Nigeria.
L'étude s'intéresse aux causes et à l'impact des migrations rural urbain à Lagos (Nigeria), en soulignant les conséquences de celles-ci sur les conditions socioéconomiques et environnementales de la population à Lagos et dans les lieux d'origine des migrants. Grâce à des méthodes à la fois qualitative et quantitative, cette recherche a montré que les facteurs socioéconomiques, notamment les opportunités professionnelles et éducatives, sont la principale cause de migration à Lagos, ancienne capitale du Nigeria et centre commercial actuel.
Using data derived from a questionnaire survey, key informant interviews, government and published sources, the paper examines the Agulu-Nanka gully erosion in the Anambra state of Nigeria.
This study used a case study methodology to examine the issue of land tenure in the informal settlements of Lagos, Africa's largest city. This research design was used in order to shed light on the unique demographic characteristics of different slum locations, and because it helps to compare the findings of this research with earlier studies conducted by the United Nations Development Programme with a view to gaining a greater insight into the characteristics of squatters and their tenure status.
This paper examines the responses of households located in urban frontiers of Ogbomoso, a pre-colonial though rapidly expanding city situated in S.W. Nigeria, to negativities of city expansion such as the increasing shortage of farmland, rising land rent/price, increasing house rents and food expenses, as well as basic services. The paper begins by examining the issue of spatial changes in Ogbomoso city between 1914 and 2007 using GIS.
