COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMPACT OF RE-ECHOED ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NIGER DELTA REGION, NIGERIA.

Abstract

Budgetary allocation is a projected monetary plan of the government. This paper conducts  a comparative analysis of impact of re-echoed environmental pollution on economic development of Niger delta region, Nigeria. Focus of the paper is analysis of budget of hope. The work is anchored on “Zero Waste Theory”. The investigation was conducted in two states of the South-South Geopolitical Zone with one from Niger Delta, one from non-oil producing state. The study was a comparative survey conducted through purposively random sampling technique, choosing a population with a validity and reliability of (ra=0.837) in a multi-stage technique. This study adopted a modified Likerts’s Scale techniques which assign values to individual research questions with a criterion mean cut off of 2.50 acceptable score while t-statistics was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 per cent level of significance. The study revealed that enormous challenges have been created by oil and gas pollution in the Niger Delta region both economic, development and health hazard impacts. There are no specialist hospitals, transportation difficulty, degradation farmlands depletion of rural income sources, poor infrastructural development increased health hazard. The paper revealed that there is significant impact of oil and gas pollution on Niger Delta environment. It was suggested that   there should be a device to detect when there is oil spill for immediate response. Youths must avoid activities that will ignite fire within the pipeline or cause explosion of the pipes and adequate security surveillance must be installed to check activities of vandals alone the pipeline. Remediation of degraded environments must be carried out as fast as possible to ensure that the environment is made useful again by inhabitants of Niger Delta region.