Lagos State's transformation into a critical urban hub highlights its economic promise and challenges, including rising unemployment, police brutality, and poverty amidst rapid growth. This study delves into how population increase, government spending, and financial policies affect the...
The current thinking is that there were probably around 2.6 million people in Lagos in 1980 and around 8.7 million by the year 2000 [1]. With such vagaries and uncertainties, there is a clear need to assess how demography can enhance our understanding of the current urban transition. The ...
Said Adejumobi, PhD, is associate professor of political science. Dr. Adejumobi taught at the Lagos State University in Lagos, Nigeria for about two decades, and was formerly governance adviser of the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja, Nigeria. Dr. Adejumobi is currently Director of Strategic Planning...
Lai, T. (2002). ‘Perspectives of peri-urban vegetable production in Hanoi’, background paper prepared for the action planning workshop of the CGIAR strategic initiative for urban and peri-urban agriculture (SIUPA), Hanoi, 6–9 June, convened by International Potato Center (CIP), Lima, Pe...
In Lagos for instance, which is the most urbanized city in Nigeria, the situation has become so pathetic such that overcrowding, slum and substandard housing as well as unhealthy and poor environmental conditions are expressions of this problem. Apart from the acute shortfall in housing supply in...
created in Eskasoni, Cape Breton Island, as the first of these (Wiber & Milley,2007; Prosper et al.,2011; Harris & Millerd,2010). To organize the operations of the fishery personnel employed under AFS agreements, the MAFS collaborated with several Mi’kmaq villages in Cape Breton with ...
In Lagos for instance, which is the most urbanized city in Nigeria, the situation has become so pathetic such that overcrowding, slum and substandard housing as well as unhealthy and poor environmental conditions are expressions of this problem. Apart from the acute shortfall in housing supply in...
assessment procedures, and explored means for overcoming these barriers to rapid, yet environmentally sound urban growth. The results illuminated multiple inconsistencies (e.g., spatial conflicts) between urban and regional plans, most prominently stemming from conflicts in administrative boundaries and a...
In this context, the creation of new jobs, programs to improve local communities’ skills, and investment opportunities to improve the regional infrastructure are parts of the activities carried out by the mining industry to ensure adequate socio-sustainability growth [2,3]. However, as a mining ...
The identification of these drivers, as well as the degree of importance of each one, is strongly influenced by the perception of researchers and professionals about the reality of each country. In this work, we identified the main drivers that increase the intelligence of the Brazilian urban ...