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compelling people to keep outdoor (US. CDC, 2017). This becomes an added advantage to mosquitoes operation given rise to such high cases of treated malaria incidence in the area over the years. Whereas, those human induced factors are; lack of adequate hygiene in the environment, also open up rooms for mosquitoes breading. And also, we witnessed high range of temperature (Temperature maximum. and Temperature minimum.) in 2003, 2007 and 2013 respectively (Fig. 1) (which poses a great impact on malaria). But yet, low treated malaria cases in those years was recorded. This probably could be connected to economic factors, i.e lack of money to go for treatment resulted to low treated cases or records in those years. And lack of sensitization and awareness to go for the treatment may also be a factor why treated cases are low. c) Evidence of Climatic Sensitive Diseases in Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State Source: Author field survey (2021) d) Asthmatic Treated and Reported Cases Figure 6 depict the trend of treated and reported cases of asthma in the study area between the year 2003 and 2018. From the upward nature of the trend line, it can be deduced that there is a steady increasing trend of treated and reported cases of asthma in the study area across the timeframe considered in the study. The most significant movement in the trend plot was in the year 2018. During this period, a total of 18 cases of asthma was treated, while 36 cases were reported. The value of r 2 (0.9369) signifies a 94% variation in reported cases of asthma in the study area between 2003 and 2018, and an 89% ( r 2 = 0.891) variation in treated cases of asthma in the study area, across the time series under study. This was conform with the work of Asher (2020). Relationship between Climatic Variables and Incidence of Malaria and Asthma in Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria 1 Global Journal of Science Frontier Research Volume XXI Issue VI Year 2021 6 ( H ) © 2021 Global Journals Version I Plate 1: Malaria patient receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre Keffi, Nasarawa State