Ogun State Government has called on residents of the State to refrain from making excess noise that may disrupt the well-being of others, calling on them to be more civilised and polite while communicating without making noise as the State celebrate the 2025 International Noise Awareness Day.
Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Ola Oresanya made the call in a press statement released to mark the day with the theme “Protect Your Hearing, Protect Your Health”.
According to him “communication is important, noise pollution is not only an environmental issue but a nuisance that has significant impact on the lives of the people and a serious public concern.”
“It is realisation of this that, the Ministry of Environment is using the celebration to remind residents of maximum permissible noise level for residential places, places of worship, places of Entertainment and Commercial areas”
“For residential areas, the permissible level is 50 decibel during daytime and 35 decibel during night time, for places of worship the permissible level for daytime is 60 decibel and 40 decibel during night time, while that of places of Entertainment and Commercial Centres are equally pegged at 60 decibels and 40 decibel for day and night times”
Oresanya therefore called on households, community leaders and operators of entertainment and commercial Centres to abide by the standard decibel so as to avoid sanctions. He announced that the state government sanctioned One Hundred and Seventy Five {175} noise polluters notably religious Centres, entertainment houses and commercial outlets in 2024 while forty five (45) were closed down.
He also used the opportunity to call on Community Development Association CDA’s in the state to institute maximum permissible noise level in their areas which must be agreed to collectively and obeyed and pledging the state government’s continuous efforts at embarking on public enlightenment programmes, stakeholders engagements and moral persuasion to drive home the need for voluntary permissible noise level compliance in the State.
