This study has assessed urban residential quality of life in two neighbourhoods of Port Harcourt, RiversState, Nigeria --drawn

The study assessed the impact of noise pollution on rental values of properties in Nigeria. The study adopted a survey research design. Questionnaire was designed to obtain data from the respondents. The close ended questions were used to collect the data. The questionnaire was distributed to respondents through their emails and phone numbers in May, 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown. The study adopted purposive and convenient sampling technique. The data analysis was based on sixty one questionnaires retrieved. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage and mean. The results revealed that noise pollution reduces property rental values with a mean of 2.7 which is greater than the mean rating of 2.5. The study concludes that noise pollution negatively impacts property values. The study recommends the development and enforcement of noise abatement measures to improve urban neighbourhood quality and increase property values.

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The study ascertained the roles of stakeholders in improving the current state of public secondary school infrastructures in Rivers State, Nigeria. The purpose of this paper is to assess the current state of public secondary school infrastructures and to ascertain the functions of each stakeholder as to solving the problems in terms of sustaining and maintaining schools insfrastructures. This study sampled 120 stakeholders in selected 6 public secondary schools built in 1970's in 6 Local Government Areas of the state with purposive sampling method Questionnaires were administered to the 120 sampled but 78 questionnaires were retrieved representing 65% response rate and the collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistical tools. The findings showed that 70% of respondents admitted that the existing conditions of the schools were in a deplorable state. The result also showed that inadequate funding, lack of government intervention, lack of maintenance, delayed maintenance, vandalism, neglect, no sense of ownership by stakeholders, lack of community's involvement, and overcrowding as the factors influencing the present condition of existing school infrastructures. It is observed that the public secondary schools are in a deplorable state of dilapidation that needed collective efforts of various stakeholders to improve them. This paper concludes that if proper attention is given to school infrastructures by the stakeholders there will be improvements in the public secondary school buildings in Rivers State and the study proposes a multi-stakeholders function framework for the proper maintenance of public schools infrastructure to eradicate the existing poor conditions.

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