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Air Quality Index: Case of One-day Monitoring of 253 Urban and Sub-urban Towns in Nigeria
* 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
1  Science and Education Development Institute, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria
2  Department of Agriculture Extension & Rural Development, Landmark University, Omu Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria
3  Department of Agricultural and Bio-environmental Engineering, Federal Polytechnic, P.M.B. 50, Ilaro, Ogun State, Nigeria
4  Department of Geography, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria
5  Department of General Studies, Gombe State Polytechnic Bajoga, Gombe State
Academic Editor: Ilias Kavouras

https://doi.org/10.3390/ecas2021-10342 (registering DOI)
Abstract:

Government departments use the air quality index (AQI) to inform the public about how unhealthy the air is now or may become in the future. As the AQI increases, so do the health threats. It is a daily air quality index that is used to report on air quality. In addition, a measure of how air pollution impacts one's health over a limited period of time. The AQI was created to assist people in understanding how local air quality affects their health. Therefore the aim of the study was to assess one-day air quality of 253 towns in Nigeria, thereby determining the health threat in these towns. The data was collected from the Tutiempo Network's regular data set by the EPA Environmental Protection Agency. Data on all of the major pollutants (O3, PM2.5, PM10, CO, NO, SO2) was collected and statistical analysis was performed. Kura (Kano State), a town in northern Nigeria, recorded the highest level of 184, while Idiroko, a border town (Nigeria-Benin Republic) in Ogun State, had the least value of 41. Kura was portrayed as unhealthy, while Idiroko was portrayed as healthy, implying that Idiroko air poses little to no danger, while Kura air showed that certain people of the general public, as well as members of sensitive groups, could encounter more severe health effects.

Keywords: Government Department; AQI; USEPA; Tutiempo Network's Data; Nigeria

 
 
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