First Semester

This course will provide an overview of environmental laws in Nigeria and the regulatory authorities. It will also look at some key issues as emissions to air and water; waste; contaminated land and environmental issues in transactions.

The content of this course is as follows:

1. Brief historical background to Environmental management in Nigeria
2. Evolution of Environmental Regulations in Nigeria
3. Environmental legislation and the regulatory authorities
4. The National Policy on the Environment (NPE) of 1989, revised 1999 and 2016
5. The Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Act no 86 of 1992, revised in 2004-now Environmental Impact Assessment Act Cap E12, LFN 2004
6. The National Guidelines and Standards for Environment Pollution Control in Nigeria of 1991,
7. Harmful Waste (Special Criminal Provisions etc) Act (Cap H1 LFN 2004). 
8. National Oil Spill, Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) Act 2006. This law puts in place machinery for the co-ordination and implementation of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan for Nigeria.
9. The National Effluents Limitations Regulation, 
10. The National Environmental Protection (NEP) Pollution abatement in Industries and Facilities Generating Waste Regulations
11. The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) Act 2007 
12. Methods used in regulatory enforcement Nigeria’s Challenges in Environmental

Learning Outcome: the students will be familiar with the legal framework in the environment and will be able to review and apply them in ESIA study.

This course intends to provide thorough understanding of the tripartite relationship between health, environment and sustainable development. It seek to address issues like, developmental policies and initiatives on environmental conditions, the impacts of environmental factors on human health and the need to sustainably incorporate health considerations  in policy development. It is expected that students will have a firm grip of understanding in addressing issues pertaining to health and environment within the broader context of development.

This course explores the collection and organized arrangement of data for accessibility, analysis, manipulations, storing and updating etc in GIS software environment. It involves applications of different designs concepts ranging from conceptual, logical to physical design in viewing realities and enabling GIS applications to serve as Decision Making System through sharing of processed data as information

Course Introduction

This course simply introduces students to basic techniques for Geoprocessing script programming for customizing geographic information system (GIS), utilizing GIS tools, and implementing application-specifics to spatial analysis, modeling algorithms and procedures.

Learning outcomes

Students are expected to master basic techniques for Geoprocessing script programming to add GIS functionality to a wide range of network-based applications in business, government, and education.