“…Globally, anthropogenic air pollution has been an important issue of concern for many years due to its adverse effects on plants, animals, environment and human health. Continuous increase in the level of air pollution emission has been reported to be the consequence of increasing population, industrialization, density of traffic, and space heating (Benaissa et al, 2019;Coskun et al, 2011;Edokpolo et al, 2015;Odekanle et al, 2017;Riyadh et al, 2020). Recently, due to continuous increase in crude oil production in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, emission of various gaseous hydrocarbons has become worrisome and called for urgent attention.…”