Monitoring noise level in cities: A step towards urban environmental quality management in Nigeria

Noise as an undesirable sound within non-occupational settings is one of the several identified environmental problems across world. It increasing common feature urban areas attributable to road, rail, and air traffic sources well construction industrial activities, commercial enterprise, such familiar domestic pets radios/stereos from residential neighborhood. a major pollution which constitutes nuisances health related consequences significant negative impacts on physical, social, physiological psychological wellbeing man or animals. notably evident that increased activities industrialization technological transfers/drifts are bedrock noise in majority our rapid growing cities at present. At instance sufficient evidence aggravates chronic illnesses like hypertension other cardiopulmonary diseases, World Health Organization (WHO) Federal Environment Protection Agency (FEPA) (Nigeria) has strategically set standards limits allowable levels unfortunately not implemented enforced most cities, thereby leading quality deterioration. occurs when it observed exceeded, therefore concerted efforts monitoring regulating recommended avert scourge further debasement cities.