Air Pollution in Nigeria

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Current Air Quality

121

Unhealthy
for Sensitive Groups

on Wednesday, Nov 19th 2025, 17:00 pm

Past 24 hours Air Quality

Cities with the worst air quality

#	AQI	City
1	154	Ebute Ikorodu
2	128	Ikeja

Cities with the best air quality

#	AQI	City
1	82	Calabar

There is a good reason to worry about the Air Quality in Nigerai, as it ranks 152^th (out of 180 countries) at the Environmental Performance Index for Air Quality.

Furthermore, according to the most recent World Health Organization air pollution database 2016 the air quality in several cities in Nigeria reaches PM_2.5 concentrations from unhealthy to hazardous levels:

City	PM2.5 Conc.	PM2.5 AQI	Health Impact	Year	Meausrement
Aba	373	416	Hazardous	2009	1 station, NA
Abakaliki	88	168	Unhealthy	2009	1 station, NA
Afikpo	72	159	Unhealthy	2009	1 station, NA
Enugu	115	182	Unhealthy	2009	1 station, NA
Ile-Ife	103	175	Unhealthy	2010	1 station, University campus
Kaduna	423	449	Hazardous	2013	2 stations, industrial area
Nnewi	57	151	Unhealthy	2009	1 station, NA
Nsukka	117	183	Unhealthy	2009	1 station, NA
Onitsha	594	500	Hazardous	2009	1 station, NA
Orlu	52	142	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	2009	1 station, NA
Owerri	158	208	Very Unhealthy	2009	1 station, NA
Umuahia	274	324	Hazardous	2009	1 station, N

(Source: WHO (World Health Organization) Ambient (outdoor) air pollution database 2016)

Public Air Quality Information availability

Unfortunately, there is not any kind of information available from the Federal Ministry of the Environment (www.environment.gov.ng) about Air Quality, whether it relates to a possible monitoring network, or to the actual values recorded by this monitoring network. To our current knowledge, there should most likely not be any kind of automated monitoring network avaiable.

There is unfortunatley, not any information either from the Abuja Environmental Protection Board.

Looking at other Environmental agencies in Nigeria (source),

A schoolboy walks through smoke and fumes emitted from a waste dump in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt
(photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images, courtesy of WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health 2018)

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AQI	Air Pollution Level	Health Implications	Cautionary Statement (for PM2.5)
0 - 50	Good	Air quality is considered satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk	None
51 -100	Moderate	Air quality is acceptable; however, for some pollutants there may be a moderate health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution.	Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
101-150	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	Members of sensitive groups may experience health effects. The general public is not likely to be affected.	Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
151-200	Unhealthy	Everyone may begin to experience health effects; members of sensitive groups may experience more serious health effects	Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should avoid prolonged outdoor exertion; everyone else, especially children, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion
201-300	Very Unhealthy	Health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected.	Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should avoid all outdoor exertion; everyone else, especially children, should limit outdoor exertion.
300+	Hazardous	Health alert: everyone may experience more serious health effects	Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion

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