The course exposes students to the different forms of pollution including industrial, agricultural effluents, oil spills, gas flaring, sewage wastes and its pollution. It attempts to identify the different sources of the pollution which include, and not limited to, industrial factories, automobiles and diesel-powered electric generators. The course will venture to find out that emissions of carbon from especially the automobiles and electric generators cause major ailments and loss of environmental aesthetics. The course further ventures to introduce the students to an emerging and rapidly growing source of e-waste especially resulting from spent ICT materials imported from developed countries. These are proving to contain deadly chemicals and toxins. Finally, attempts are made in the course to review national efforts at addressing the three categories of the environmental problems including institutional/policy; legal/regulatory and special initiatives and actions.

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