One of the emerging environmental challenges today is hydrocarbon pollution arising from
activities of petrochemical industries, natural sources of crude oil pollution and other …

Surface water is a source of drinking water in most rural communities in Nigeria. This study
evaluated the total heterotrophic bacteria (THB) counts and some physico-chemical …

In the present study, an agricultural soil artificially amended with different concentrations of
palm oil mill effluent was analysed to determine its impact on the soil microflora and other …

This study was designed to assess the total heterotrophic and hydrocarbon oxidizing
microbial diversity, determine the physicochemical parameters of oil contaminated soil and …

Many substances known to have toxic properties are regularly introduced into the
environment through human activity. These substances which include hydrocarbons range …

The study was carried out by artificially polluting an agricultural soil in Calabar with varying
concentrations (0 ml, 250 ml, 500 ml, 1000 ml and 2000 ml) of rubber effluent, in which 0 ml …

Hydrocarbons which forms the bulk of soil and water pollutants in the Niger Delta region of
Nigeria differs in their susceptibility to microbial attack and degradation. Considering the …

Analysis of seasonal implications on the microbiological and physicochemical
characteristics of sediments was carried out on samples collected from Imo River estuary …

In order to assess the tolerance of crude oil degrading microbes naturally present in pristine
soil to crude oil toxicity, pristine soil samples were collected from the garden of the Faculty of …

ABSTRACT A large amount of crude oil is spilled annually into the terrestrial and aquatic
environments in Nigeria. This tends to upset the natural equilibrium of the marine …