Nigeria's Transport union and its passengers By olusegun Ariyo

                                                                        

The ignominious failure in urban transport and traffic management is one of the major courses of transportation problems in most Nigeria cities. One of the common traditions in Nigeria city traffic behavior is conflict among the road users that is characterized by street trading, road obstruction, on road- parking, evacuation of structures on road set back, abandonment of damaged vehicles  at roads sides, and unhealthy competition between the pedestrians, motors, motorcycles,  street traders and cat pushers. As a result of this, the traffic decay in the city mobility in Nigeria has been characterized with an increase in the waiting hours on board vehicles.

When primary school looks more of dumping ground by Olusegun Ariyo

Weather we believe it or not, education remain the bedrock of true national development. It is actually the pivot upon which the development of any nation hinges. The physical observation of fauzia  Omar Amadia primary school in okokomaiko popularly known as [FOA]  situated  adjacent iba local planning authority along badagry expressway, remains very pressing were the situation needs an urgent attention from the regulatory body.

In the name of pedestrian crossing in Okokomaiko By Olusegun Ariyo

An artificial pedestrian cross over bridge along okokomaiko Cassidy end that is accessing Alaba international market has been generating a lot of controversy. Residents have said. Accordingly, lot of pedestrians that are moving to there market place during the peak and after of peak hours uses that channel on a daily basis. Amazingly, checks also has it that this man-made pedestrian bridge has been in existence for more than two decade busy operating on commercial purpose, collecting tolls from the larger patronage of the Alaba market traders where majority of their residence has a proximity advantage to that location. Not only in that area alone, even the access road that is linking Alaba market international is also not left out on this issue  were toll is collected on every commercial motorcycle that pass through it. The implication of this development is that the riders have resorted in hiking the price of fare in other to accommodate the tolls fees leveraged on them, making those marketers to be at the receiving end, in addition to those that are patronizing the market. Angered by this development, the market traders resorted to carry along media agents to have a focus group discussion with some selected members of the traders that stay in that location. According to them, they believe that having been collecting tolls for over twenty years, it is indeed enough for them to have a standard bridge to access through it. To them, it has become an extortion and that it is unjust and asking the government of the day to come and intervene.

Private sector driven housing delivery and the many question by Olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                

The performance of the housing sector is often a barometer for measuring the health or ill health of a nation. Therefore, for any nation, housing is a set of durable assets which account for higher proportion of a community’s wealth and on which house hold spend a substantial part of their income any analysis of housing problems, including those being encountered by different players in the sector. Therefore, is a study of a nation’s attempt to adapt its inheritance to new need and to add to this inheritance in ways that accord with a changing economic and social structure and rising human aspiration? Since the housing problem has an ever changing nature of dynamic proportions which neither lend itself to static appraisal nor a belief in a once and for all solution.

Vision 20 20 20 AND HOUSING DELIVERY BY OLUSEGUN ARIYO

For any nation, the performance of housing sector is often the barometer by which the health or ill-health of a nation is measured or determined therefore for any nation; housing is set for durable asset which account for a higher proportion of a country’s wealth and on which household spend a sustainable part of his income. Sustainable house is not a house that only generates good quality and affordable housing, also alleviate the befitting equitability between the rich and the poor we generate the environment rather than destroying it and empower the poor to have access to decent houses at affordable cost.

THE MDG CONSTRAINT IN NIGERIA; by Olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                        

There has been an upsurge in the number of people that inhabit the earth and more specifically, the urban centre as such, the need for development have also become importance. The alarming rate is capture by the state of the world report, where they observed that “we have never seen urban growth like this in history in term of speed and scale, yet, the important of future growth has not captured public imagination. And surprisingly little is being done to maximize the potential benefits of this transformation or to reduce its potentially negative consequences. Currently, there are a token of 6,679,493,900 as estimated by US census international in 2008, people in the world today, most of these increases in population have been deduced to come from Asia and African countries, this explain why the pressure is more on developing country where such increases are becoming a burden rather than a blessing. More worrisome is that majority of this population live in slum and shanties. In 2002, UNFPA argued that today, million of people live in Slums, 90 percent of whom are in developing countries. They state further that the battle to reach the millennium development goals and cut extreme poverty by half by 2015 will be waged in the world’s slums. The world leaders in recognition of the fact that these human agglomerations are inevitable have come up with various programmes aimed and addressing the myriads of problems associated with such increase.

Material control policy and building collapse by Olusegun Ariyo

One of the major challenges confronting Nigeria in its plight to sustainable development is the problem of having access to building material in large quantities, In good quality, and at affordable price. The scenario has resulted into two major problems, which is the growing incidence of building collapse, which many lives and properties have been wasted coupled with building maintenance problem. This has become issue of many forums the rapid growing cases of building collapse in the country in associated with the use of low quantity and inadequate building material.

Development control issues and lagos environment by Olusegun Ariyo

The world we live in is very dynamic in every ramification. It Has consequential effect on man’s activities and the environment in which he lives. The quality of the environment is greatly influenced by the number and quality of people within the environment. A close look at the population and its growth rate in Nigeria and Lagos gives an insight into the enormity of problems and perhaps challenges to anticipate. Figures  in Nigeria and from the Nigeria’s national report to the habitats11 world congress in turkey shows that as from 1946, no settlement in Nigeria had a population of up to 200, 00 and from available records, within  the period of  fifty years, sixty one  cities have been produced, when non was existing as an indicator of high urbanization rate. This become interesting when one realizes that as at 1921, Nigeria’s urban population was just 5% of the total. The population rose to 20% in 1970, 38% in 1993 and 40% in 1996 and has been predicted to reach 60% by the year 2010 and 62% by the year2025. When compared with the national average the growth of Lagos state has been more alarming.

IBA L.CD.A AND THOSE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT

                                                                 Hon Ramota Adeyeri.

                                                                                                           

When john Strauss mills a renowned expert on local government and development molded the word ‘’pedagogical’’ in his understanding, his narrative was how is developing the people can be done by the people and  for the people them- self’s and that in actual sense, was what he meant with such word .This is by know means a new dimension of inculcating good governance with excellent leadership quality in the annals of self transformation and inter dependency that is geared towards development of the grass root. Doing it your self, indeed, is what this concept preaches and in-doing, the reality of happening in our government at the grassroots can be best described as the independent of having elective leaders in every segment of both the legislatures as Councilor and its executive arm.

Waste management challenges; Akesan community cries out by Olusegun Ariyo

15 Aug 2013

                                                                                  

                              

‘’we are here helpless, our environment has become an embarrassment to us and those migrants who emigrates and migrates with different perception, one wonders what flows through there minds, given what they see when moving around within our habitats. Said, a resident of Akesan community.

Coker's introspection on community empowerment initiative by Olusegun Ariyo

                                                                  

           

The importance of developing mankind essential needs and wants is anchored on bringing self sufficiency to those who are willing to conform to a desirable change, bring the society  to a functional  and epoch making event, and also helping them self to be sustainable in terms of developing life's sustaining abilities through those initiative that truly gives birth to reality of transforming human lives into opportunities instead of allowing it wallow away, killing productive generation from one decade to the order.

Dying culture of maintenance in commercial transports by Olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                    

Evening has fallen in the street of Lagos; indeed, it was time when every employee, artisans in all work of life has to start returning home from their various places of origin. Indeed, happy hours for some has evolved, while it is usually a sad one for others since majority of our mode of movement is indeed on road and the means of transport that majority  of the population uses as  channel  still  remains commercial vehicular movements. Everyone is looking forward in getting on board through various routes that are in-existence in every terminal in-demand, in other to get to their various destinations. Experiences as, to the way things  are done in most unusual manner by those operators of commercial vehicles, that majority of them, the populace ply during peak period,  and  where  you don’t even know any  agency to lay complains to when the needs arise, instead,  some  of those dying cultures  is being allowed to be celebrated without any body  questioning what ever is their sense of judgment on there  maintenance and vehicle worthiness in the cause of their movement from one location to the other is truly one out of many obstacle we are yet to cross in the annals things that  should be done appropriately.

Household vulnerability to climate change by Olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                          

We live in an age of rapid change in the global environment, change caused by prolific human activities and unprecedented in   human history. Among-st the most prominent of the change is the alteration of composition of the atmosphere, with the associated consequences for the earth climate. Although, there has been series of event that has resulted to climate change in the past, however, this present is peculiar in that it is anthropogenic ally induced.

Has PDP truly woken up to realities of opposition politics? by Olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                           

                                                                             

 Welcome to Another world. This was as result of the verdict the people had displayed in casting their votes during the last election that ushered in the opposition party, the all progressive congress at the just concluded exercise in leading the affairs of this country, where-with, having the peoples Democratic Party holds way since 1999, from   the inception of another democratic dispensation in Nigeria.

Crime surveillance; A revealing testimony of an officer;olusegun Ariyo

                                                                       

All of a sudden in our faces and culture, security trend has taken a new turn in Nigeria. Indeed, Crime in various dimensions. The unexpected fortune is always making the news round in various categories rising from theft, armed robbery attacks and off course, kidnapping. This challenge has become unprecedented in It self. Is this bad in itself?

Setting institutional frame work with rural housing by Olusegun Ariyo.

                                                                                           

Government intervention in housing delivery predates Nigeria’s independence. The colonial administration provided limited staff quarters for the colonial masters and reasonable chunk of the class dwellings. However, successive post independence government, military and civilian, have adopted national development plan as potent instrument for economic development, covering all vital sectors of the national economy.

providing housing for the low income population by Olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                         

Housing is one of the basic yardsticks for human survival and the need to ensure its qualitative and quantitative delivery cannot be overemphasized. Further study on housing becomes paramount when considering the rate influx of people from the rural areas to urban setting particularly because of dichotomy, which exist within the rural and urban areas in the developing world. The phenomenal growth of large urban agglomeration in the third world region of the world over the last few decades has become global concern. Reports reveal that by the year 2020, a high proportion of 93% of the worlds over billion people will occur in the third world countries and that 2.2 billion inhabitant will be added to the population in the cities. An increase of 160%. Some cities however are growing two or three times faster than the country’s over population, reflecting massive migration to the cities.

                                                                     

Setting Agenda On Environmental policies For President Buhari by olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                  

A recap on the Nigerian environment and housing in early 2015 saw many trend some exhilarating some saddening. There were various incidence of building collapse, flooding, fast pacing deforestation in Northern States of the federation, and other human difficulties.

How Honorable is this federal legislature? by Olusegun Ariyo[ 1]

                                                                                     

 The word honorable as defined in the oxford dictionary is some-one worth’’ deserving respect and admiration, showing high moral standards, allowing to keep their good names and high moral standards. Borrowing from such, one is tempted to say that the underlined indeed, can be in an opposite terms in the attitudes of some of our honorable legislators, given  their various action and inactions that some individuals have experienced in the course of having one means of engagement with there constituents especially if it’s boiled down with having  engaging in one  transactions or the other with them.

Environmental laws and its challenges of change by Olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                        

Human activities and natural disaster all over the world has continued to effect the environment physically, socially and economically. Human activities that affect environment include building along the drainage and other unauthorized places that result to over flooding, particularly the change of use that is now the order of the day in various location of housing development in Nigeria.

curbing Hiv/Aid pandemic in African cities by Olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                      

Available statistical evidence  suggested that the cumulative number of estimated  hiv infection world wide stands at over 50million since the beginning of the pandemic across the globe, no continent has escape the virus and its prevalence varies among region and countries. Within this context that Africa is home to nearly 70% of adult and 80% of children living with hiv in the world, and has buried three quarters of the more than 20million world wide who have died of AIDS since the pandemic began” in other words, the pandemic has being the leading course of in the continents today, coursing one in five known cases of death especially woman who are disproportionately affected and infected. Empirical evidence from the continent indicates that 55% of the infected adult is women. The devastating trend of the pandemics in sub-Sahara Africa call for concern.

flood plain in Arida settlement;and its fairy tails by olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                      

A settlement location adjoining isheri corridor along ikotun  in Alimosho local government area of Lagos state has since been battling with flood plain that has unfortunately continued to persist in the process of finding its meeting point in that settlement. Arida, a settlement with dispersed pattern, having  proximity advantage with  [1] Adeyinka,[ 2] john Barovebe,[ 3] Adebari odutoye street and pipeline road has been ravaging with these challenges of flooding for many year back and still counting, said Dr idowu Aseperi, a community leader. 

local government Autonomy; to be or not to be? by olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                    

Successive administrations in Nigeria have made various attempts to create governance structure that allows for pursuing decentralized and representative administration through different levels of government, albeit with differing degrees of success. These efforts are exemplified in the use of regional Authorities, native and district and the introduction of parliamentary system of governance with the independent constitution then. Similarly, the creation of state that rose from an initial twelve to present thirty six, as well as the creation of three hundred local government areas in 1976, which progressively rose to seven hundred and seventy four were also aimed at creating an administrative environment for grass roots development through decentralization.

Pet bottle, A Lagos lagoon menace by Olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                     

Lagos state, the state of aquatic splendor is the second most populated state just after Kano in Nigeria. An aquatic splendor in that, it is almost drown in water, which exists as creeks, lagoons and estuaries-which removes more than 800 square kilometers of the total land area. Water bodies are so prevalent that they have many entry points and tributaries to the sea from upland.

CUSTOMS;HEADQUARTERS MONITORING TEAM INTERCEPTS SMUGGLED FROZEN POULTRY PRODUCTS by olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                  

                                                                                                    

Following the renewed onslaught against smuggled frozen poultry products as a way of protecting  federal government trade policy  and encouraging our local investors, the Headquarters Monitoring team  at the Idiroko Axis, on Tuesday 30^th June, 2015 intercepted eight hundred and ten (810) cartons of smuggled poultry products.

INEC; in search of transparent Election by olusegun Ariyo

                                                                      

At a time like this in our history when transition to another democratic dispensation has struck the fear of God into us, it is only difficult to find positive ground. Some one had smooth sailing in the cause of managing the ship, while others never had. It is either you find your ship capsized or you find your destination having experienced smoother sailing from origin. Unlike those former umpires, that had it rough with both the public and their employers amidst much controversy before and after the expiration of their tenures.

JONATHAN’S NATURE OF GOVERNANCE By Olusegun Ariyo

                                                                                    

As the word goes,’’ nature must take its course’’, For whatever reason it is applied, the explanation depict one of those attribute that incorporate  every thing human does as way of life that arose from action, inaction, style  and pattern of behavior.  Where indeed,  it  can also be  tailored  along side the  act of God  with  its infinite mercy that he gave every living being as means to develop and grow over time with.  Nature is truly phenomenal in that, it must take its course when ever it deems necessary of manifesting. 

Housing for all; politics or policy?

Event across the globe have shown that good governance is fundamental to national development. Ensuring a stable political atmosphere, sustenance of the democratic process and policy continuation is necessary in achieving improving housing conditions for the people.  For people to realize their potential by identifying opportunities and choices to overcome indignity, a rich political frame work that make living worthwhile should formulated.

OKOKOMAIKO HABITAT: WHY WE MUST ACT AND ACT DESPERATELY WITH SPEED.

                                                                                        

One of the major areas that pressing on the issue of sustainable development on physical environment in Lagos metropolis today is Okokomaiko settlement. The location of the ekistics is without maximum practicable decree of convenient. it was observed that inadequate provision of urban service, lack of infrastructure facilities and urban environmental problem serve as a hindrance factors that is posing setback on the development of the settlement, the general environmental conditions of the settlement is appalling and is characterized by poor accessibility, lack of sufficient space for human survival, poor drainage leading to waste water problems in fact, the area is mostly water logged area. Stagnant water is one serious problem as its often envelope the whole neighborhood and even the entire length of settlement, putting motorist plying the area in confusion during rainy season and subsequently during the mid-day and mid-night.

Housing Right policies as lesson for nigeria

                                                                                       

Nigeria, the most populous black nation in Africa and the fourth largest economy in the continent have much to be desired when it comes to housing rights, overcrowding has for long characterized living accommodation in urban areas of Nigeria. Reports in common country assessment in united nation national system in 2001 indicate that there is enormous Nigerian population living in slum and still increasing continuously. 

As Aero and Yayi slugs it out at the tribunal, here is Aero's views..

                                                                                              

                                                                       

Segun Adewale, popularly called Aeroland, is the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senatorial candidate for Lagos West senatorial district. He spoke to selected journalists in Lagos  on his stolen mandate and how some people are sabotaging his effort to reclaim his mandate in court.Olusegun Ariyo provide the Excerpt!

There Was an allegation that You Where robbed what really happened? 

It’s clear, we have ten local governments in our senatorial district and I won election in eight local governments but Solomon Olamilekan known as yayi was declared paradoxically.

Looking beyond oil and the issues of management

’Looking beyond oil’’ was the theme for this year Nigerian institute of journalism bi-annual conference that was held in Asaba, the Delta state capital. Looking Beyond oil as it seems, look very articulate to come by, but indeed, the intrigue, permutations, conjectures and sabotage  in  oil sectors  are of more concern than the word may seem, even though very ‘’apt’’ as described by the representative of the president Ayim pius Ayim. The level of manage-mental capability alone is another priority that should be

involved in every segments of our societal doings whether in the oil sector or beyond it, even if it will transcend beyond oil activity and move to another phase in searching for more income through other God given potentials .

Is it right for Alien to vote in Nigeria… By Olusegun Ariyo

One thing is pertinent on the eligibility status of those who should have the franchise right to vote and be voted for all over the world, which is those with the status of birth from the origin of  any given country where every other consideration came’s  along  with it, aligning  varying policy, depending on how   such country deems it fit and worthy before satisfying  those  requirements for the  issuance of citizenship  status  for  foreign national  the country  so desires before any individual can be able to participate in every activities that include franchise rights.