Urban Solid Waste management has become the greatest problem facing many urban and semi-urban areas in Nigeria of which Nasarawa town cannot be an exception. Despite the efforts by the state government to help to solve the problem its efforts are not enough and these brought about the involvement of the private sector operators to participate to help to solve the problem. The study appraised private partnership in urban solid waste management in Nasarawa Town, Nasarawa LGC, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. Yamene (1967) formula for sample size determination was employed, the sample size for this study is 138. The primary data used in this study was obtained by direct field observations, questionnaire administration, oral interviews, images and photos of the study area. The results of the major finding showed that the private partnership in solid waste collection would have sprigged up quite large number of operators in the area given the results of the analysis as follows. The provision of storage facilities in the study area by individuals carries 78.3% while those by the government agency responsible (government) carry 21.7 % of the sampled population and by private carry 0%. The study equally recommends that private partnership in the urban solid waste management should be encourage in the study area. Furthermore, the study recommends that regulatory agency should be more aggressive in playing its statutory roles of managing the PSP. Finally, the Nasarawa State Ministry of Environment should review the existing laws and regulations guiding environmental sanitation and health as the regulatory body.
Maiyaki et al. (Mon,) studied this question.