MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES AND CONSTRUCTION EMISSIONS IN NIGERIA: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS ON HEALTH CONDITIONS

It has been observed that the manufacturing industries, the transport of building materials and the installation and construction of buildings consume large amounts of energy and produces large amount of carbon dioxide that have a negative impact on people's health. Thus, this study examines the effect of manufacturing industries and construction emissions on health conditions in Nigeria using time series data from 1985 to2017 employing the Auto-regressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) econometric approach of co-integration. The study found out that there is a negative relationship between carbon emissions and health conditions. Therefore, the study recommends that the government should formulate environmental policies that will help reduce the adverse effect of CO2 emissions; this should be directed towards the industrial sector, thereby reducing the hazards associated with gaseous emissions, when this is done the health condition of the people will be improved upon