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This paper examines Kano State's response strategy to climate change as well as measures for the ... more This paper examines Kano State's response strategy to climate change as well as measures for the adoption of climate smart practices aimed at fostering sustainable development. It describes the physical and socioeconomic characteristics of the State, its vulnerability, as well as adaptation and mitigation measures to the threat of climate change. The paper provides the context and objectives of the Kano State policy on climate change.. The paper also describes the institutional setting for managing climate change in the State within the overall context of advancing sustainable socioeconomic development in Nigeria.

Research Square (Research Square), Sep 24, 2023

IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology, 2014

This paper evaluates the dominant concepts that characterize stream channels in urban environment... more This paper evaluates the dominant concepts that characterize stream channels in urban environments and the basis of the explanation which is predicated on the argument that larger flows beget larger channels. The paper uses observation of the Jakara stream channel in Kano metropolis, Nigeria which indicates that although urbanization has a variety of effects on stream channel morphology, other factors such as nature, age and historical evolution in urban development as well as natural factors such as climate, physiography, geology, vegetation and soils are significant in explaining the observed channel in urban areas. The paper therefore argues that many of the relationships advocated between channel form and urbanization probably are the results of combination of many temporal or geomorphic factors or of local conditions and that the relationship between channel morphology and urbanization observed in Jakara channel did not isolate the process or processes that are responsible for the pattern or a trend for all reaches of the channel. The paper recommends that in view of the significance of urban channels to aesthetics and the stream ecosystem a framework for understanding the dynamics requires continuous research especially in semi arid areas that have few empirical studies.

Paper presented at the 12 th AGM of KUST Alumni Association, 2023

Plate 1.1 Initial site visit to GNA plantation Plate 1.2 Audit team on site inspections to GNA pl... more Plate 1.1 Initial site visit to GNA plantation Plate 1.2 Audit team on site inspections to GNA plantation Plate 2.1 Google earth image of GNA plantation site Plate 2.2 Water reservoir in GNA plantation Plate 2.3 Irrigation control room and water installation systems in GNA Plate 3.1 Digital meteorological station located in GNA plantation Plate 4.1 Tractor used in GNA plantation Plates 4.2 Dump site for disposal of solid waste in GNA Plate 4.3 Fuel tanks in GNA plantation Plate 4.5 Storage warehouse in GNA plantation Plate 4.6 Safety guidelines issued by GNA Plate 4.7 Safety signage in the GNA Plate 4.8 Fire extinguisher in GNA Plate 4.9 Training session in GNA

Global Journal of Social Sciences Studies, 2016

Sanitation issues have become a global concern in recent decades. Most of the environmental sanit... more Sanitation issues have become a global concern in recent decades. Most of the environmental sanitation issues and challenges are as result of rapid population growth which has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase in the delivery of essential sanitation services such as water supply, sewerage and solid waste facilities capable of enhancing environmental sanitation practices. The resultant effects of these are unsanitary and unhealthy environmental conditions that are especially prevalent in the satellite towns of the study area. The Nigerian Government recognizes that a pleasant environment, which is hazard free and promotes healthy living, is a fundamental right of all Nigerians, and that problems of poor environmental sanitation can endanger improved productivity and foster inequitable share of national economic development. It is against this background that this study assesses the implementation of sanitation policy in FCT, Abuja. The objectives of the study are to examine the institutional and funding mechanisms for environmental sanitation and determining the extent of implementing the environmental sanitation policy in FCT. Simple linear regression analysis was conducted to examine whether sanitation policy has an overall impact on the level of implementation of environmental sanitation in the study. The correlation co-efficient (R) in the matrix=0.956; indicate a positive and strong correlation between the sanitation policy and level of implementation. The proportion of variation; R2 =0.1182 with an overall effect of only 11.82%, this suggests that 88.18% of association within the model cannot be established. The combined effects indicate a significant relationship between the sanitation policy and its implementation in the study area.

Research Square (Research Square), Sep 24, 2023

IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology, 2014

Paper presented at the 12 th AGM of KUST Alumni Association, 2023

Global Journal of Social Sciences Studies, 2016

The scope and scale of this Festschrift is a fitting tribute to the breadth and depth of Dr. Judi... more The scope and scale of this Festschrift is a fitting tribute to the breadth and depth of Dr. Judith Eaton's work on quality assurance in higher education over many years. The book reflects her extraordinary career and its steadily increasing international focus. After serving as chancellor of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and president of community colleges in Pennsylvania and Nevada, she became vice-president of the American Council of Education in Washington, D.C. These diverse roles were an ideal preparation for her appointment as founding president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in 1996. Under her focused leadership, CHEA became the largest association of degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States and a respected national advocate and institutional voice for nurturing academic quality through accreditation. At CHEA's annual conferences she herself wove together discussions from the diverse sessions into a coherent whole, creating events that people tasked with quality assurance in higher education could not afford to miss. Over the years CHEA's conferences attracted increasing numbers of participants from outside the USA, leading her to establish the CHEA International Quality Group (CIQG) in 2012. The two editors of this Festschrift were both key figures in CIQG's growth and development. Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić became CHEA's advisor on international affairs, bringing from her long career at UNESCO extensive experience of degree recognition and quality assurance that dated back to the development of the Lisbon Convention. Peter Okebukola joined the CIQG International Advisory Council, which met annually alongside the CHEA Conference, and was its chair from 2016-19. He brought to the table decades of experience of university governance, with a particular focus on quality assurance and combating corruption in Nigeria and Africa generally. Dr. Eaton herself became more active internationally as overseas participation in CHEA's conferences grew. She already had a long association with accreditation in Hong Kong and was a respected figure in the International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE). I remember well her address to the 2010 INQAAHE Conference in Windhoek, Namibia, on the past, present and future of quality assurance. After noting how the focus of quality assurance had shifted from inputs to processes and then from processes to outcomes, she coined the phrase "the spread of the familiar" to describe the convergence of methods around the world. But while she encouraged quality assurance bodies to learn from good practice elsewhere, she reminded us that countries were at different stages and that one size did not fit all. This attitude ensured that CHEA's international activities were free of the imperialist undercurrents that can hamper US associations spreading their wings abroad. She fully understood that higher education accreditation in the USA, which is largely a voluntary process run by the higher education institutions themselves under the guidance of CHEA, was an outlier in world terms. In other countries governments usually play a greater role in quality assurance processes. Given the highly partisan politics of the USA, she inspired CHEA to fight against government encroachment on the institutionally based processes of her own country, while accepting that government involvement in accreditation and quality assurance elsewhere was not necessarily malign. She brought the different traditions together by encouraging the debate on quality to focus on the essentials, of which the development of CHEA's Quality Platform in 2013 was an example. It was an outcomes-based external review of performance and quality, targeted for national or international use by the alternative providers that were emerging at that time.