# Multi-City Nigerian Solid Waste Management Comparison — Scholaris (University of Toronto)

**Citation:** (PhD thesis, University of Toronto, Scholaris repository). Comparative analysis of solid-waste management in nine Nigerian cities.

**Link:** https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/b0c4db00-4b70-40fe-b5da-e9205e1caa35/content

**Relevant quotes / tables:**

> "In this study, nine cities namely Lagos, Maiduguri, Kano, Ibadan, Makurdi, Port-Harcourt, Onitsha, Nsukka, Abuja were chosen as urbanistic representatives of the current solid waste management in Nigeria."

> "The composition of waste ... great majority of the total solid waste generated in Nigeria is organic."

Selected per-capita generation rates from the study:

| City | kg/cap/day |
|------|------------|
| Lagos | 0.63 |
| Kano | 0.56 |
| Ibadan | 0.51 |
| Kaduna | 0.58 |
| Port Harcourt | 0.60 |
| Makurdi | 0.48 |
| Onitsha | 0.53 |
| Nsukka | 0.44 |
| Abuja | 0.45–0.74 |

**What it feeds:**
- National per-capita generation-rate lookups by city.
- Confirmation that Nigerian MSW is predominantly organic across cities.

**Confidence:** Medium — wide geographic coverage; older base year (fieldwork 2007) so current generation rates likely higher.

**Limitations:** Full thesis is long; only key per-capita rates extracted here.