Chemistry Journal Vol. 6, No. 1, 2021, pp. 1-8 http://www.aiscience.org/journal/cj ISSN: 2381-7674 (Print); ISSN: 2381-7682 (Online) * Corresponding author E-mail address: Environmental and Health Implications of Cement Production Plant Emissions in Nigeria: Ewekoro Cement Plant as a Case Study Ogunsina Olabode Isaiah 1, * , Olusola Augustine Olusegun 1 , Akintan George Blessing 2 , Ayedogbon Oluremi Samson 1 1 Department of Biochemistry, Environmental Biochemistry & Toxicology Unit, Faculty of Science, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Nigeria 2 Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Technology Akure, Akure, Nigeria Abstract Climate change remained one of the most pressing environmental challenges confronting humanity across the globe. Emissive gases coming out of cement production plants invariably contribute to the problem of global warming and climate change. These industrial plants for cement production involves a high energy intensity process marked with high-level consumption of fuel for clinker making which in turn results in releasing emissions into human environment. Apart from the issue of fuel consumption, the process of calcinations equally aggravates emission generation challenges of NO 2 , SO 2 , CO 2 , particulate matters among others. Cement is made up of different forms of chemicals such as lime, silica, and so on. These set of chemicals could induce health related problems especially respiratory illnesses. Topmost in the hierarchy of significant environmental hazards that could be adduced to cement production industries revolves around allergenic complications to respiratory system challenges. To this end, this paper reviewed the intricacy between cement industries and its associated health and environmental implications with a focus on Ewekoro Cement Plant, Ogun State, Nigeria. It adumbrates the processes involved in cement production and sources of emission plus a succinct view of emissions generated as well as health and environmental impacts arising from this subject-view. The research explicitly centered on emissions produced in the course of clinker making while emissions produced via consequent operation in the course of cement production such as transportation, electricity and so on were not accounted for in this study. This was achieved through comprehensive reappraisal of existing literature on the subject-view. To be precise, relevant information with respect to health and environmental impacts associated with cement firms were sourced from published and unpublished articles including journals, reports, theses, magazines, and so on. Keywords Cement Production, Emission Generation, Health and Environmental Impact, Sustainability Received: May 5, 2021 / Accepted: May 31, 2021 / Published online: July 26, 2021 @ 2021 The Authors. Published by American Institute of Science. This Open Access article is under the CC BY license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 1. Introduction Suffice to say that life without the use of cement in our contemporary world is impossible. This is mirrored from the perspective that cement is an indispensable fabric in the construction sector widely employed for the development of housing and other critical infrastructural facilities which has been argued by scholars to be fundamental towards achieving socioeconomic growth. The demand for cement is intricately interlinked with economic growth and development and as