ROAD TRAFFIC INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL AIR CONDITIONS ON STREET-ENTREPRENEURS IN AKURE-SOUTH LGA. ONDO STATE, NIGERIA

Roadside corridor serves as a major hub for street entrepreneurs to display their items and carry out their business in most African city. The major objective of this research is to be carried out roadside analysis of the surrounding air along street corridor in other to determine the amount of Carbon monoxide (CO), Sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ), Nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) and Particulate Matter (PM 10 ) which are by-product of automobile on the street entrepreneurs on the selected street in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. Likewise, both Survey and experiment analysis was deployed to obtain the real state of some of the common air pollutant in the corridor of study. Results shows that these informal entrepreneurs are greatly affected by road traffic air pollutant; as 12.45% of the respondents have high nasal discharge, 12.21% of the respondents reported high throat irritation, 12.21% of the respondents cough often, 4.72% reported high level of breathlessness and 4.11% reported high asthmatic condition. While it was observed that between 13.943ppm to 3.225ppm of carbon monoxide, 0.025 ppm to 0.007 ppm sulphur dioxide, 0.071 ppm to 0.016ppm of Nitrogen dioxide and 1156.000 µg/m 3 to 328.260µg/m 3 of Particulate matter 10 (PM 10 ) is generated along the corridors of study. The study recommends that entrepreneurs in the informal sectors operating along road corridors should carry out their business at least 150m away from major road traffic path to avoid over exposure to automobile generated air pollutions as this will lead to a decrease in health hazard occasioned by over-exposure.

1 Introduction ue to the recent realities brought on by the economic crisis and the rise in unemployment, many people and families have been forced to shift their efforts to other forms of business in the informal entrepreneurial sector in order to cope with these economic realities (WILLIAMS; GURTOO, 2012).As a result, street entrepreneurship has become the norm for many urban dwellers in developing cities of the world (MATZEMBACHER; GONZALES; SALDANHA, 2019).
Many people are moving to the informal entrepreneurial sector along road traffic corridors in order to survive new government policies that prevent the majority of people from profiting effectively from their white-collar jobs.These trades are advertised on roadside corridors (IGWE, et al., 2014).The informal economy is a type of economic activity that is not sufficiently covered by formal provisions, both in law or in exercise, this is according to the International Labour Organization (ILO, 2011;WILLIAMS;GURTOO, 2012).
The surrounding environmental quality of air condition at a location is a reflection of the state of the region due to the prevailing activities throughout the spatial spectrum, according to the Federal Highway and Administration agency in the United States of America-USA (FHWA, 2019).It has been noted that fossil-fuelled vehicles pollute the air and surrounding areas, which can be distressing for those who go about their daily lives adjacent to these roadside corridors, contributing to the bad quality of the environment globally (GETACHEW, 2015;ZHANG, et al., 2018).
Over time, research on entrepreneurship has focused on the effects of various attributes, organized physical characteristics, and resource configurations on entrepreneurial output (COMPANYS;MCMULLEN, 2007).
However, the understanding of how roadside and/or street entrepreneurs in an emerging market are affected by the surrounding environment is particularly important due basically to the releases from the tile pipe gases emitting from automobile as they pass along the road corridor in which these entrepreneurs carry out their informal entrepreneurship activities (ODESANYA; OKOKO; STEPHENS, 2019).In actuality, few studies have been done on the safety of informal entrepreneurs along such route corridors despite the vibrancy of the sector (LEFEBVRE;De STEUR;GELLYNCK, 2015).
Studies in this field are few and tend to focus on cuttingedge high-tech companies (VRONTIS, et al., 2017).As the case of entrepreneurship on roadside risks is concerned, more research is also required in low-income enterprising (ALFIERO; LO GIUDICE; BONADONNA, 2017).
The main issue that many small to medium-sized businesses faces, especially those engaged in street initiatives, is how to replace active innovation with something more profitable (FARSI;TOGHRAEE, 2014).These entrepreneurs also deserve to be protected from the unpleasant externality of the transportation sector, caused by the release of harmful gaseous substances to the environment.This essay tries to fill that knowledge vacuum, focusing on street entrepreneurs and the safety concerns surrounding their workspace in relation to air pollution.
The prevailing assumption in the literature that street entrepreneurs lack innovation and that their safety concerns are not taken seriously stems from their low educational standards (REYNOLDS et al., 2002;BHOLA, et al., 2006;MATZEMBACHER;GONZALES;SALDANHA, 2019).
In this way, what are the exposure levels to air-related pollutants that roadside businesses in the informal sector are exposed to?This question is what drives this study.An inquiry was conducted to address this subject, with a case study concentrating on roadside merchants that engage in Petty trade, street hawkers, vulcanizers, owners of roadside shops, auto mechanics who work on cars alongside the road, and food sellers (beans cake makers, snacks markers, etc.) all engaging in selling their product along the street in a developing city in Nigeria.
By gaining a deeper understanding of the nature and qualities for entrepreneurial safety on road corridor, this study will add to the body of knowledge on street vendors.In particular, it is hoped to further knowledge of how street vendors can remain safe during economic downturns that have prompted many to turn to this type of business for family sustainability.

Methodology
Akure-south Township is located in Ondo State, Nigeria and it is the capital city of the state.The study area lies on latitude 7° 4' and 70 25' north of the equator and longitude 5° 5' 5°30' east of the Greenwich meridian.

Research Population
A reconnaissance survey "Unpublished record" was carried out to count the population of people along the corridors of study (petty traders, street hawkers, vulcanizers, roadside shop operators etc.) who work every day to meet up with family demand.These populations cover both sides of the roads.The width of coverage was 25 metres from the road median.Investigators were deployed to move along this corridor from 9am to 12 noon (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and count people who subsist along the corridor.
A pre-sampling of data was conducted to show the population in other to make the work scientific, five per cent (5%) of the total population were sampled hence, 827 people (Table 1).

Data Gathering from Respondents
The method deployed in obtaining the research data was by gathering information with the use of a questionnaire as seen in appendix 1.These measures were in agreement with the ethical standards of the committee responsible for human at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State (OSG, 2012), Nigeria with code FUTA/ETH/23/100 as seen in appendix 2. This was done so as to make assertion of possible air pollutant's influence on the health of the entrepreneurs since most of them earn their living on the street.These air pollutants have been linked to asthma, coughing, breathlessness, nasal discharge, throat discomfort, and other symptoms (OGUNTOKE; YUSSUF, 2008).Field enumerators were deployed to administer questionnaires to collect data for the study.

Method of collecting the Air Pollutant
Msa Altair 5X air analyser/detector device (msa xcell sensor technology brand) was used to collect data (gas content) of Nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), Sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ), Carbon monoxide (CO) while CLJ-D Particulate counters detector (100-1million (PCS) Brand) was used to analyse the Particulate matter of PM 10 .

Operation Procedure for Collecting Pollutant Gases using Altair5x gas monitor
Apparatus: Global Positioning System (GPS), Altair5x gases monitor in ambient air and Stopwatch.
Altair5x gas analyser works with the aid of sensors to detects gases.The device was turned on by pressing standby button and waiting for (10 -15) seconds for the next page to display on screen. 2 red alarm indicators make sound, just to notify that the device is on and ready for collect air for analysis.
The inlet pump was blocked for 10 seconds with left finger in order for the pump test to pass.The device (MSA Altair 5x) was then pointed to the location/spot where measurement is to be taken.After a while the READ button is pressed on to simultaneously display data for the gaseous value of each of the gases collected through the inlet pump.Gases measured are Nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), Sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ), Carbon monoxide (CO).Figure 3 shows the Msa Altair 5X in use during the field data Collection for air pollutant in one of the study location.To measure PM10, a CLJ-D Particulate counter was employed.An internal volume-controlled pump drew the ambient air into the monitor at a rate of 1.2 litres per minute.The sample was collected onto a filter after passing through the measuring cell, laser diode detector, and measuring cell.The pump also produces the necessary clean sheath air, which is filtered and returned to the optical chamber via the sheath air regulator so as not to prevent contamination of the laser-optic assembly.
The sample air is flown at 1.2 L/min through a thin, fine dust filter, eliminating all dust particles.Clean air is drawn in by a membrane pump through a valve as a safety measure.A flow controller that tracks the pressure drop across the orifice was in charge of controlling the sample's flight.To keep the optic and the measurement chambers clean, some of the cleaned air was utilized to irrigate the measuring chamber.The system was calibrated for zero particles using this clean air during the functional selftest.Figure 4

Social and Economic Characteristics of respondent in Akure South LGA for the selected road corridors
The gender analysis in this study is accessible in Table 2 It shows that there are more male in the respondents than female with men having 55% of the total population sampled.
This could be because most men are bread winners hence the need to work and support the family in the absences of white-collar jobs (BUDIG; 2006).About 40.3% of those sampled are married, while 49.8% are single, showing that most of those carrying out their daily businesses in these corridors of studies are mostly singles although a high percentage are also married.
For education, 14.6% are without any formal education while 51% have primary/secondary education.Showing that more than halve of those on the street doing business are educated and with right policies and plan can be encourage in carrying out more profitable businesses that could spare than the danger attached to working along road corridors.
The highest age group sampled within the corridor of study is between 30-to 44-year-old; they are 43.3% of the total sampled respondents while self-employed individuals have the highest per cent of 51.9 for occupational status.Around 85.7% of respondents spend around 8 hours on these corridors and 63.8% of them have no children/ward that assists.About 82.6% of the respondents do not smoke suggesting that most of those sampled for the study do not have social life of smoking.Smoking habit can influence the result negatively since the Federal ministry of health warns that smokers are liable to die young.Smoking affects the health in a negative manner (MONYE, et al., 2020).About 10.3% of them uses firewood to cook and 55.9% of them use electrical stove/cooking gas which is a cleaner form of energy to cook either at home or at the site where they carry out their daily business.The third corridor of study is conducted along Ijomu junction to Oke-Ijebu roundabout, its shows a value for Carbon monoxide (CO) 13.686 ppm, Sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ) 0.020 ppm, Nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) 0.068ppm and the average level of Particulate Matter (PM10) 1099.69µg/m 3 was recorded in the afternoon at Ijomu junction.
Coughing according to Oguntoke and Yussuf (2008) could be signs of some health problems emanating from emission of pollutants, however, result from the population shows that only 5.3% have high coughing problem. Figure 3 shows the frequency/rate of incidents coughing of respondents along the corridor of study.
About 48.85% of sampled respondents do not cough often while 12.21% of sampled respondents cough often; this is a sign of danger as the prevalence of chronic cough has been estimated at between 3% and 40% of the population (FORD et al., 2006)   For Throat irritation, figure 5 expresses the throat irritation pattern of respondence in Akure south LGA in the selected corridor of study.About 12.21% of the respondents have high throat irritation and 53.69% have low throat irritation.This suggests that the effect of the discharge emission from automobile in these corridors is quite low to pose any serious health effect as it relates to throat irritations.
Asthma is a disease caused by fine particle in the air that could affect effective breathing; figure 5 shows the Asthma distribution pattern of respondence in Akure south LGA for the selected corridor of study.A closely study shows that about 4.11% of the respondents have high asthmatic conditions and 76.90% have low asthmatic condition.This suggests that the effect of the discharge emission from automobile in these corridors is quite low to pose any serious.

Conclusions
Due to high levels of potential health hazards associated with automobile-generated pollutants on humans subsisting along traffic corridors as observed from the study, use of open spaces beside roads for shops should be discouraged in order to minimise human exposure to atmospheric pollution.The use of noise masks, regular and compulsory medical check-ups should be introduced by the state and local government through legislative policies.
This will also enable data to be gathered on the health effect of near-road pollution on roadside entrepreneurs.
Based on the findings from the study, it is recommended that entrepreneurs in the informal sectors should carry out their business at least 150m away from major traffic corridors since it has been observed that at such distance, the effect of such pollutants wears out greatly so as to avoid overexposure to automobile generated pollutions as this can possibly lead to a decrease in the risk of business health hazard and increase their safety.

CREDIT AUTHORSHIP CONTRIBUTION STATEMENT
JFO researched and wrote the article.

DECLARATION OF INTEREST
The author declares that there are no conflicts of interest in the course of this study either directly or indirectly.

FUNDING SOURCE
No financial contribution was used for the development of this article.

Figure 2 .
Figure 2. Akure-South Network of Road Showing Network of Selected Road Corridor, and Land use.Source: The author (2019).

Figure 3 .
Figure 3. Msa Altair 5X in use during the field data Collection.
Figure 4. CLJ-D Particulate counter in use during the field data Collection.

Table 1 .
Population of People in the selected corridor to be sampled for Akure-south LGA.Source: The author.
Source: Researchers pilot survey (2019).ROAD TRAFFIC INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL AIR CONDITIONS ON STREET-ENTREPRENEURS IN AKURE-SOUTHLGA.ONDO STATE, NIGERIA

Table 2 .
Social and Economic Characteristic of Respondents in Akure South LGA, Nigeria.

INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL AIR CONDITIONS ON STREET-ENTREPRENEURS IN AKURE- SOUTH LGA. ONDO STATE, NIGERIA
Table 5 reveals the average air pollutant values obtained from March, 2019 to May, 2019.
ROAD TRAFFIC Table 7 elucidates the average air pollutant for NEPA junction to SCAB filling Station from March, 2019 to May, 2019.

Table 3 .
Average air Pollutant (in ppm while PM10 in µg/m 3 ) for Cathedral to Road Block from March 2019 to May 2019.Source: The author.

Table 4 .
Average air Pollutant (in ppm while PM10 in µg/m 3 ) for A-Division to Fiwasaye junction from March 2019 to May 2019.

Table 5 .
Average air Pollutant (in ppm while PM10 in µg/m 3 ) for Oke-Ijebu Road (from Ijomu junction to Oke-Ijebu from March 2019 to May 2019.
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Table 7 .
Average air Pollutant (in ppm while PM10 in µg/m 3 ) for Adekunle Ajasin Road/Parliament Road/Igbatoro Road (NEPA Junction to SCAAB Filling Station at Igbatoro Road) from March 2019 to May 2019.

Table 6 .
Average air Pollutant (in ppm while PM10 in µg/m 3 ) for Arakale Road (from 1 st Bus stop/NEPA Roundabout to Isinkan Roundabout from March 2019 to May 2019.Source: The author.
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