Environmental pollution and associated health hazards to host communities (Case study: Niger delta region of Nigeria)

Niger River Delta located in Nigeria supplies the economic necessities which situates it firmly in the Comity of Nations and sustains its enviable position in the world map as Africa’s largest economy and the most endowed country of the world. Over the years, this natural endowment which expectedly should have enhanced the regional peoples’ welfare (not neglecting other regions though) has unfortunately become a trouble. To say that the Niger Delta is suffering would be such a mild interpretation to the gross disaster which has been plaguing not just its human population but other inhabitants (all living creatures) of all other habitats. This investigation focuses on the health hazards associated with environmental pollution in the region. It concludes that these hazards can be contained through a series of recommendations which include financial confederalism and upward review of revenue allocation to the region.