October 2008

Planning education (PE) in Nigeria: Strategies for improvement

  This paper traces the origin of planning Education in Nigeria. The paper shows that planning education in Nigeria follows her colonial history in the sense that most of the earlier planners in the country were trained abroad until University of Ibadan was established as a college of University of London in 1948. Earlier planners were trained as geographers before their training in planning. Many Universities...

Author(s): Adeleye, Rufus Olawale

October 2008

Gender differentials, vulnerability and mobility stress coping strategies in Nigeria

  The exploding rate of growth of vulnerable groups and transport insecurity in developing cities poses great challenges to planners and policy makers. In the light of this, the paper examined vulnerability and mobility stress coping strategies differentials among male and female in a developing city-Lagos, Nigeria. The study used primary data, which were obtained through a questionnaire survey of 356...

Author(s): Odufuwa, B. O.