Assessing the environmental health hazards and housing development in the slums of Abuja, Fct.

Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: A, University of Nigeria (CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL), course: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL, language: English, comment: Abuja is an area where immigration is pronounced due to its position as the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. The urban poor scramble for land near the city center to erect ramshackle structure both for residential and business purposes. The direct consequences of unplanned and uncontrolled development are incompatible land use, overcrowding and slum formation which tantamount to environmental decay in the city. Due to these anomalies, this research was carried out to assess the effect of environmental health hazards and housing development in these slum areas of Abuja. , abstract: The hypotheses formulated here are, that the indicators of environmental health hazards and housing development as measured by the number of houses are not significant in the slums of Abuja, that the spread of health devastating diseases and ramshackle developed houses are not significant in the slum areas and that the Environmental Health Hazards does not differ significantly among the slum areas. Secondary source of data collection such as written source materials and primary source of data collection, which include participant observation, questionnaire, oral interview and laboratory work, were employed to collect data. The sample size number was firstly determined using Yaro Yamani formula. Yaro Yamani formula is donated as: n = population/ 1+population (significance level)2. This gave 400 questionnaires. But four-hundred questionnaires were just 0.75% of the total estimated average household. In other to get a sample size that represents at least two percent of the total estimated average household size, it was done by finding two percent of an estimated average household size in each of the slums. So, 1067 questionnaire that amount to two percent of th