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The paper presented an assessment of the resource potentials of composting organic waste materials arising from the municipal solid waste stream from cities in Nigeria. Through a review of quantitative data, the composition of municipal solid waste arising within cities in Nigeria was examined in order to identify the potentials for composting organic materials from the waste stream composition. The data showed that the average majority of the waste stream was organic materials which implied high potentials for composting organic waste materials from Nigerian cities. The review also identified further potentials for composting was associated with the large population and the majority of them engaged in agriculture, as a high potential market for compost manure in Nigeria. There were more potentials derivable from the current policies of importing and supplying chemical fertilizer with huge subsidies for domestic agriculture in the country. The need to substitute these policies of chemical fertilizer with the use of compost manure implied high potentials for composting in the country. The paper also identified numerous benefits of composting in general and with particular reference to the Nigerian situation which includes, among others a reduction of the vast quantity of solid waste for final disposal, reducing air pollution and ground water leachate and also employment generation and increased income. Therefore, the paper recommended a deliberate government policy to promote composting of organic solid wastes material and marketing of compost manure to substitute the current policies of importing chemical fertilizer with subsidy for domestic agriculture as a strategy to achieve sustainable waste management in Nigeria.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between housing finance institutional related variables and financial related variables of low-income earners in Bauchi Local Government Area, Bauchi, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach In this study, quantitative research approach was adopted. Self-administered structured questionnaires were used to collect information from 500 primary school teachers in Bauchi Local Government Area, Bauchi, Nigeria. A correlation analysis was carried out to find the relationship between housing finance institutional contexts and finance contexts to low-income earners in the study area using SPSS Version 23 software. Findings The findings shows that the low-income earners were more concerned with the accessibility and affordability on housing ownership, and it also showed that performance and effectiveness of the housing finance institutions were of paramount importance to housing ownership for the low-income earners in the study area. Practical implications The finance institutions are the prime consumer of these research findings. The participants in the finance institutions are going to benefit from the low-income earners’ housing ownership development. Originality/value The paper also emphasized that the finance institutions should make the housing finance loan accessible and affordable to the low-income earners to meet their dream to sustainable housing ownership.

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Abstract. Solid waste varies extremely in generation rates and types of materials composition across countries and cities or even within the city parts due to changing socio-economic and climate conditions which also differs by location and time. Thus, studies to define these parameters are essential for achieving efficiency of waste management. This paper reviewed literature and proposed a framework for the analysis of residential solid wastes generation and composition (SWGC) in Bauchi metropolis Nigeria, being an extract of PhD research in progress. The framework suggested a mixed approach using mainly quantitative and the support of qualitative methods. The framework will develop a reliable database to underpin policies for efficient solid waste management in Bauchi metropolis, Nigeria.

The research sought to analyze military housing provision and Soldiers' housing preferences at shadawanka barrack Bauchi, with the goal of meeting the military personnel's housing demands in the study region. The study collected data using a quantitative technique and survey strategy using a descriptive and exploratory research design and a questionnaire instrument. The study's population consisted of military personnel, with a sample frame of 248 dwellings, assuming one personnel per house. A sample size of 160 people was chosen. The questionnaire on a five-point Likert scale was self-administered. According to the findings, the factors with the greatest and fair conditions are security, wall condition, floor condition, and finishing, while the variables with the lowest and lowest condition rating are sewage and road networks within the barrack. The barrack's general or average level of housing conditions was rated fair. Water supply and security are the variables with the highest levels of adequacy, whereas drainage and road networks have the lowest levels of adequacy and reaction. The general degree of appropriateness of the barracks' residences was rated unsatisfactory. The quality of the floor, the walls, and the number of bedrooms have moderate levels of satisfaction, whereas solid waste disposal and sewage have low levels of satisfaction. The most common source of unhappiness is the insufficiency of housing provision, which has the highest standardized Beta coefficient of 0.285. The study recommended that the sewerage and solid waste disposal systems be improved. The service can be contracted out. Internal road networks and drainage systems within the barracks should be restored, and new ones created to give proper accessibility. There is a need for new dwellings to be built in order to relieve overcrowding in most homes. Because military personnel are dissatisfied with their housing owing to inadequacies, it is recommended that sufficient housing based on the demands of the soldiers be considered.

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Despite the numerous empirical studies that have been conducted on housing conditions, there is still very little research work carried out on military barracks life, the impact of the condition of the barracks’ accommodation on the soldiers’ social life and morale. Thus, thispaper presents a study onthe relationship between housing conditions, soldiers’ social life, and morale in Coral Barracks Nigeria and covers only the non-commissioned officers’ quarters. A quantitative method using a questionnaire survey was used with a sample size of 260.The data were analysed using descriptive statistics as well as parametric measurements. A total number of 194 questionnaires retrieved from the respondents were used in the analyses. Building services attributes had a strong and significant positive correlation. Moreover, neighbourhood and soldiers’ life correlate significantly, negative but weak, while physical housing attributes and neighbourhood attributes correlate significantly but negatively and weak with children's life. Neighbourhood attributes and soldiers’ morale recorded a significant, negative but weak correlation. In light of these findings, thisstudy recommends that astandard strategic plan for efficient barrack housing construction, management, and maintenance is designed.