Sanitation is paramount to human life because it contributes to safety from communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as playing important roles in human socio-economic development and sustenance of cultural values. The aim of this paper is to highlight unwholesome practices that are inimical to good sanitation in Nigeria with particular focus on Ibadan South EastLGAs of the Metropolis. Survey method was largely used in this study with questionnaire administered on 233 respondents selected from 40 households spatially spread across the LGAs. The analysis shows that domestic liquid and solid wastes constitute environmental hazard in the area. About 69 per cent of the respondents are females which indicate that issue of household sanitation is gender biased, 64 per cent of respondents are married depicting large household size with multiplier effect on quantity of waste generated. Also 28.3 per cent of households pack solid waste in sacks while 24 per cent use waste bins. Also, 17.2 per cent dump and burn solid waste in front of houses while nine per cent dispose of refuse on vacant plots. The astonishing revelation is that 6.9 per cent of them throw waste into flowing streams while 12.9 per cent dump waste into drainage. Adding to these problems is lack of awareness of building code which made sanitary facilities wrongly located. Education through public enlightenment, provision of sanitary facilities and involvement of PPP among other things are advocated to remedying the present sanitation problems in Ibadan city and cities in Nigeria.
This research involves measuring maintenance productivity and seeks to measure how maintenance of equipment affects the overall productivity of the company. The Stewart Utility Concept was used along with a scaling factor. Performance measures were identified and their values were obtained. Five productivity ratios were employed to obtain the overall maintenance productivity. Results from the graphs showed that Equipment Availability was 78.32%; Emergency Failure Intensity Ratio was 28.4%; Maintenance Cost Component was 32.39/btl; Cost of Maintenance hour was N125, 081/hr; Routine Service Worked was 92.03% and Cost of Reduction was 5.32hr/N. The overall maintenance productivity of the period under review was fairly good though there is room for improvement. Average overall maintenance productivity was found to be 63.2%. This is an indication that there were evaluations and review of maintenance productivity within the period.
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