Infrastructure Development and Urban Facilities in Lagos, 1861-2000

Olukoju, Ayodeji

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“…Scholars have debated the role of physical and social infrastructure in development without reaching a definitive consensus on their importance relative to other dynamics in human development. (Olukoju 2003) However, Bello (2002 argued that a high positive correlation exit between a developed infrastructure and sustained high rates of economic growth and trade coupled with a significant reduction in poverty, inequality and environmental degradation. According to Mbaku (2013) infrastructure enhances trade and commerce, encourages cultural exchanges that can promote national integration and reduce conflict, and eases labor mobility.…”

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The Impact of Peace Accounting on Human Capital Development of Sub-Saharan African Countries

Iyanuoluwa¹,

Rufus²,

Enyi³

2020

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Introduction Governments all over the world set structures that enable their economy to either grow or be sustained, while also paying attention to the maintenance of peace and order, as well as ensuring the security of lives and property and food. Despite the use of environmental accounting to curtail most of the environmental issues that ranges from environmental degradation to environment restoration in order to avoid unnecessary conflict among stakeholders and also insecurity of lives and property, (Igweonyia, 2016), there is the need to promote a sustainable environment by accounting for peace. Ellawule (2018) opined that measuring a country's economic performance has gone beyond the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or Gross National Product (GNP), which only measures economic growth. The measurement of the level of human development through the use of Gross National Product (GNP) for different countries was first criticized by the pioneer United Nation Report of 1954 in which for standard of living was made. The level of development is reflected by openness to international trade, levels of per capita GDP, and urbanization. According to Dialoke and Edeja (2017), economic development is a concept involving two or more variables; hence, there is no single acceptable definition of it. Economic development is a process where low income national economies are transformed into modern industrial economies. It involves qualitative and quantitative development in a country's economy. Political and social transformations are also included in the concept of economic development in addition to economic changes. World Bank (2018) noted that a holistic development that considers material conditions and quality of life tells a more complex story. Arnold, (2011), stated that Economic development is related to improvement in the quality of life of people through the introduction of better packaged goods and services using recent technology and infrastructural development, reduction of risk and dynamics of innovation and entrepreneurship. The Newly Industrialized Countries have been able to achieve economic prosperity mostly due to their peaceful operational environment. Any one cannot dispute the argument

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The Impact of Peace Accounting on Human Capital Development of Sub-Saharan African Countries

Iyanuoluwa¹,

Rufus²,

Enyi³

2020

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“…Historians and urban scholars have uncovered structures (racial, political, economic and military) that have inhibited government infrastructure provision in Lagos (Abiodun, ; Cole, ; Abiodun, ; Olukoju, ; ; Gandy, ; ; Acey, ; Fourchard, ; Gandy, 2014). The particularities of history and politics of cities that have shaped urban planning and public finance and built environment investments are traceable to colonial modes of governance and the ongoing process of state formation (Yeoh, ; Myers, ; Nilsson and Nyanchaga, ; Nilsson and Kaijser, ; Bohman, ; Bekker and Fourchard, ; Hungerford and Smiley, ).…”

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Silence and Voice in Nigeria's Hybrid Urban Water Markets: Implications for Local Governance of Public Goods

Acey¹

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article highlights how the governance of the water sector affects the strategies and tactics urban residents use to gain improved access to water for household consumption in cities with limited networked infrastructure. A framework of exit, voice and loyalty (EVL) is used to characterize the actions household decision makers take in neighborhoods across metropolitan areas. In Nigeria, Lagos and Benin City are rapidly growing metropolitan regions with urban water markets competing with a state‐run utility. Scholars have documented informality and hybridity between state and non‐state actors, but there is less understanding of variables associated with citizen behavior in urban water markets across different types of households and communities. This article places Nigeria in the context of African mobilization around water provision, using interviews, observation and findings from fieldwork, household interviews and surveys undertaken between 2008 and 2015 to show how access to water is shaped by the interplay between state and non‐state sources of water. This access is filtered through differently regulated service providers and the perceived authority of each actor involved in water delivery, which can lead to what I call structural silence. Findings show the need for a grounded understanding of factors influencing voice and participation in local governance.

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“…These were: (1) a General Hospital in Lagos, (2) dredging of parts of Nigeria's inland waterways in Lokoja and Baro, (3) construction of the Koko Port, (4) a low-cost housing estate in Obalende, Lagos, (5) Second Lagos Mainland Bridge and (6) land reclamation in Victoria Island, Lagos. All these projects cost the federal government a total of £102.25 million (FRN 1960:33;Lawal 1994;Olukoju 2003).…”

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Managing Nigeria’s development through the public budget: Lessons from the foundations laid by Okotie-Eboh, 1958–1965

Ogunyemi

2017

APSDPR

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This article examines the essential issues in the economic development of Nigeria in the 1960s as shown in all the budget speeches presented to the parliament by her first indigenous Finance Minister, Festus Okotie-Eboh. The study highlights the Minister’s efforts to obtain parliamentary approval for the Appropriation Bills laid by his government before the Nigerian House of Representatives in Lagos. The purpose being to underscore the role of the individual in shaping the course of the development of any nation. Hence, the study identifies the fiscal policy orientation upon which the key programmes and projects reflected in such speeches were built. It also establishes the extent to which the projects were achieved. The study concludes that Chief Okotie-Eboh’s parliamentary speeches on Nigeria’s federal budget, though loaded with oversized literary niceties, were still, rather than depictive of a mere display of endless parliamentary filibustering, indeed, a veritable part of the sources of Nigeria’s public history.

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Infrastructure Development and Urban Facilities in Lagos, 1861-2000

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The Impact of Peace Accounting on Human Capital Development of Sub-Saharan African Countries

The Impact of Peace Accounting on Human Capital Development of Sub-Saharan African Countries

Silence and Voice in Nigeria's Hybrid Urban Water Markets: Implications for Local Governance of Public Goods

Managing Nigeria’s development through the public budget: Lessons from the foundations laid by Okotie-Eboh, 1958–1965

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