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.