A research finding has shown that the emission of carbon from generators has contributed majorly to the high increase of cancers in Nigeria and other countries.
This report was made in Abuja yesterday during an international conference on Mathematical Modelling, organised by the National Mathematical Centre, Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) and the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS).
The director and chief executive, National Mathematical Centre (NMC), Prof Adewale Solarin, said that fumes from generators are responsible for the increase in the rate of cancer because they are carcinogenic.
He cited an example using a whole village or a whole town as a case of study, that when electricity is generated from one source and it is distributed to everywhere, then you can control the pollution from that point rather it’s virtually every building that you have generators and this is causing a lot of pollution.
That’s the major reason why ways of actually controlling carbon monoxide emission from various causes should be found, as it is no longer from cars only. You see every building with generators which emits carbon monoxide into the atmosphere.
Using various reports, all findings attest to the fact that remission of gases into the atmosphere is causing pollution which is responsible for cancer, asides global warming.
The executive director, COMSATS, Dr Imtinan Qureshi, explained that Mathematical Modelling has several applications that cut across scientific and technological fields having direct relevance to socio-economic development, including physics, biology, chemistry, meteorology, geo-sciences, various engineering disciplines, medicine, space sciences, transportation, economics, etc.
He expressed confidence that the international conference would ginger scientific and technological cooperation among the scientists from various developing countries, and enhance their capabilities to address challenges in relation to environmental protection and health.
The research papers presented in the two-day conference the applications of mathematical modelling in relation to two areas which include environmental protection and health and also ecological risk assessment.
