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I have over a decade of teaching, community engagement, and corporate support experience. This experience thus supports my interdisciplinary teaching and research experience in business, management, and geospatial modules across various tertiary institutions. In my various teaching roles, I apply real-life case studies, business and project models, and geospatial approaches in providing learning and teaching support to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. I possess the needed expertise
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March 2020 - present
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- I assist in research towards achieving the goals of the SARChI Chair for Inclusive Cities
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February 2017 - May 2020
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Local Economies, People, and the Climate Change Discourse
The commonality of the Nigerian human settlement challenges is complex and deeply rooted in a mix of historical and contemporary factors. While the situation presents significant obstacles, addressing these issues is paramount for the nation's sustainable development and the well-being of its citizens. Thus, this chapter offers a definite analysis...
The potential of land to foster peace, stability, and socioeconomic development makes "good" land governance a pathway through which cities can attain sustainable development. However, for land governance to achieve most of its objectives, it has to meet the demands of vulnerable populations, particularly women, since they also need to meet their h...
Informal public transport (IPT) or paratransit, such as traditional taxis, tricycles (keke), minivans (danfo) and motorcycles (okada) are the preferred means of transportation for many people in cities of developing countries. Despite their importance in the movement of people within African cities, the operators of these urban transport modes are...
There is lack of empirical evidence on the vulnerability of immigrant businesses in Durban, South Africa, during the COVID-19 pandemic. To investigate this, data was collected during the pandemic to evaluate the vulnerability of immigrant businesses. The research adopted the quantitative approach, with a sample of fifty-three (53) Durban city immig...
This book analyses urban planning in Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone Africa, exploring its history and advocating for new approaches. In a climate changing world, cities need to be reimagined and designed to be more sustainable, but despite being one of the fastest urbanising continents, Africa has generally weak urban planning systems. The...
This book analyses urban planning in Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone Africa, exploring its history and advocating for new approaches. In a climate changing world, cities need to be reimagined and designed to be more sustainable, but despite being one of the fastest urbanising continents, Africa has generally weak urban planning systems. The...
The increasing influx of people to mountain base environments has opened up the area to a myriad of problems that threaten the liveability of the residents and the sustainability of the environment. Yet, sufficient empirical investigations have not looked at the particular issues that threaten their liveability experience. Using the case of Idi-Ori...
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the education sector, including in the built
environment, and has precipitated a pedagogical shift to e-learning. This has affected educational outcomes due to challenges faced by educators and students, including access to technology and connectivity and lack of practical training. Broad adaptation has been requ...
Despite the increasing investments in physical infrastructure, developing countries have been identified to be below par in meeting the basic infrastructure needs of their populace. However, rural areas when compared to urban remain neglected in infrastructure investments. Owing to this, selected rural dwellers through community collaborative respo...
The ability to respond to the need for food is threatened by the scarcity of urban farmers (UF) in the elevation of the urban population. This shows that the availability of food is a cultivated land function, indicating that agriculture is only a mirage when sites are unavailable for farming. Irrespective of these conditions, the sustainability of...
Two decades into the current millennium, there are still questions about the status and situatedness of Africa in the global community. One central question about Africa is the historical footprint and arrangements of the colonial occupiers. From this standpoint, additional questions center on the lived experiences of Africans, especially in terms...
Background
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and neighbourhood liveability is dependent on an improved transportation sector. Urban transport is conceptualized as either mobility or accessibility; thus, it remains an integral part in enhancing urban livelihood and serves as a hub connecting all sectors of a city's economy. Lack of...
The increasing influx of people to mountain base environments has opened up the area to a myriad of problems that threaten the liveability of the residents and the sustainability of the environment. Yet, sufficient empirical investigations have not looked at the particular issues that threaten their liveability experience. Using the case of Idi-Ori...
Infrastructure poverty and poor service delivery that characterise rural spaces are more evident in developing countries. In Nigeria, tackling the exclusionary practices in rural service delivery is dependent on the responsiveness of numerous stakeholders. In this study, planners and political office holders are identified to be critical to rural s...
Effective rural service delivery and improved infrastructure provision have been identified as a driver towards improving the livelihood conditions of rural people. Identifying this has resulted in the development of infrastructure-driven policies for the development of rural areas. This paper aims to explain the role played by infrastructure in en...
The incidence of cancer is an emerging public health problem in Nigeria. Using secondary data from the University College Hospital Ibadan from 1993 to 2012, the study investigated the spatial–temporal incidence of prostate cancer. Questionnaire was also administered to 120 prostate cancer patients to establish the risk factor habits associated with...
Urban centres in the world are undergoing facets of changes. these changes are evident in developing countries and more divergent because urban transformation in developing countries is often accompanied challenges which include traffic congestion, overcrowding, pollution and continuous land use succession. This phenomenon remains peculiar to the c...
Over the years, rural service delivery is often subjected to political players and less of the rural public interest. The study examined rural people experiences of local government rural LGAs of Oyo state, Nigeria. The concept of governance provides the conceptual balance for this study. The study made use of a mixed approach for data collection,...
Access to potable water and sanitation promotion is critical to public health and community development. The rural communities of Garatu and Gidanmangoro were selected for a comparative investigation of the challenges households faced in accessing water and sanitation facilities. The study used primary data collected through survey questionnaire ad...
Urban market fire disasters in recent times are becoming rampant, rendering many homeless and loss of livelihood. This study examines response and recovery measures to market fires in Lagos metropolis using market fire data from the Lagos State Fire Service and questionnaire from traders who are victims of fire disaster in the area. In this study,...
Financial income and household status are common yardsticks for defining household living conditions and wellbeing. The study examined the livelihood conditions of selected peri-urban villages and rural communities in the Southwestern region of Nigeria. The triangulation of methods which included four hundred and seventy-two (472) household questio...
The argument that rural areas or rurality will disappear in the face of undoubted urbanisation remains vague and inconclusive. However, the infrastructure poverty and poor service delivery that characterise rural spaces are evident. Using data from interview and focus group discussion (FGD) collected from sampled rural communities in Oyo State Nige...
River overflow is one of the main causes of flooding and erosion. In Nigeria, flooding affects (loss and damage to properties and distortion of sources of livelihood) and displaces more people than any other disaster (loss and damage to properties and distortion of sources of livelihood). The 2012 overflowing of the River Niger and the subsequent f...
Two terms that are enjoying increasing overwhelming global literature advocacy and discussion are urban farming and climate change. While there is increasing advocacy towards the relevance of urban agriculture for urban dwellers and how it translates into a mitigation strategy against climate change variability and adaptation to urban poverty, the...
The exposure and vulnerability of rural space and people to the effect of the
changing and varying climate are undoubtedly high and worse felt in Third World
countries. The vulnerability and climate-related shocks and stress in Nigeria and
by extension Africa are drawn from the limited capacity. Despite the foregone,
rural Africa has developed seve...
The novel and unprecedented Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has negatively impacted most nations of the world within a short period. While its disproportionate social and spatial variability has been established, the reality in Nigeria is yet to be studied. In this paper, advanced spatial statistical techniques were engaged to study the bur...
At the core of city inclusivity are infrastructure provision and service delivery to address city residents’ inequality. It then follows that a failure or exclusion in terms of infrastructure can often lead to a breakdown in the city functions. Therefore, from available literature, citizen participation is a cardinal factor in achieving inclusion i...
The right to space, place access, infrastructure demands and bridging the inequality gap are the momentum and increasing language of the urban poor in the post-apartheid South Africa. The demands for the taste of the seen, reported and scarcely experienced urban quality of life led to the increased city designated migration among many urban poor. M...
The increasing urbanization being experienced in African
countries exacerbates their current housing needs and tenure
insecurity. Despite the strictness of the formal land market in
Ibadan, Nigeria, urban residents find it easier to access land from
informal land market in the city, which results in incremental
housing development. Based on the Sel...
Purpose
This paper sought to uncover the intrinsic determinants of the choice of transport modes in Nigeria's capital city, Abuja, based on commuters' perceptions on different modes of transport. The ultimate goal of the study was to come up with suitable multifaceted measures to deter private car usage, while refocusing society's mind-set towards...
The poverty-as-a-vaccine hypothesis came to light following the wide circulation of the controversial British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service post on the internet and social media. It was a theoretical response to what this paper has termed as “the African COVID-19 paradox” or what some have characterised as the “African COVID-19 anoma...
Malaria is a major parasitic disease in the world including Nigeria which currently bears the brunt of the global malaria mortality burden. This paper responds to the need for all countries in the world including Nigeria to understand the geographical distribution and drivers of malaria mortality with the aim of consolidating the gains of global ma...
Background: The high influx of private and public vehicles within global cities (including Ibadan) has resulted in traffic congestion within the city centre. Ibadan North-East, an urban local government area (LGA) within the metropolitan land area of Ibadan, has been experiencing automobile accidents and traffic congestion which in turn limits emer...
The condition of water infrastructure in selected village communities along periurban and rural corridors of Oyo State can be said to be in a state of colossal infrastructural waste and communal neglect. Using a mixed approach, the study examines household water stress and adaptation. Evidence shows that peri-urban villages and rural areas in Oyo S...
Secondary school as a gateway for the development of other sectors of the educational system provides primary school leavers with the opportunity for qualitative education, the platform for skills and knowledge for vocational work, or higher institutions admission. In Nigeria, public discussions frequently focus on educational standards. This study...
The role of migration in the development of cities cannot be downplayed. Migration across the globe helps break space and place isolation. In these migrant dynamics, women and most especially foreign migrants play a vital role. Various factors account for the migration of women within Africa. This chapter identifies the dichotomy in-country experie...
Forced eviction remains a contributory factor to urban poverty, loss of accommodation, and displacement among urban poor. By extension, these forcible displacement experiences result in a downward shift in their standard of living; thus, contributing to urban poverty within the urban space. This study examines forced Eviction in the Badia East comm...
Urban market fire disasters in recent times are becoming rampant, rendering many homeless and loss of livelihood. This study examines response and recovery measures to market fires in Lagos metropolis using market fire data from the Lagos State Fire Service and questionnaire from traders who are victims of fire disaster in the area. In this study,...
The threat of the increasing global temperature is now of global concern than ever before. This prompted the authors to gain insights on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon in a medium-sized city of Akure, Nigeria. A random sampling of three hundred and twenty-five (325) structured questionnaires was administered and analyzed with the aid of the...
The threat of the increasing global temperature is now of global concern than ever before. This prompted the authors to gain insights on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon in a medium-sized city of Akure, Nigeria. A random sampling of three hundred and twenty-five (325) structured questionnaires was administered and analyzed with the aid of the...
The energy situation in Nigeria has always been a paradox. Despite having abundant energy resources in the country, widespread energy poverty is faced by the citizenry. About 60% (74 million) are not served with electricity, while another 94% (171 million) do not have access to clean energy. In a bid to cushion the effect of energy poverty, househo...
Urban poverty coupled with housing shortages have contributed to the proliferation of informal settlements and slums. This is one of the complex problems arising out of urbanization and which is piling pressure on urban authorities to use unorthodox methods (such as forced evictions) to ameliorate the situation. This paper revisits the use of force...
The focus on urban planning continues to flood the global literature. However, there is continued silence and neglect with regard to rural planning. The study examined the state of rural planning in Oyo State, Nigeria. Primary data was sourced using structured questionnaires and in-depth interviews. Questionnaires were administered to two hundred a...
Many eco-tourism sites in Oyo State continue to lay in waste. Two are the focus of this chapter: Ikere Gorge Dam and the Ado-Awaye Hanging Lake in Iseyin LGA. Authors examine the condition and prospect of eco-tourism in the rural Iseyin local government area. Data was captured from a structured questionnaire administered to tourists and rural resid...
Urban areas that are the seat of power, cities, and capital cities are often the location and base of administration where policy allocations take place and the needs of settlements are discussed and met. Therefore, rural infrastructure needs are at the mercy of urban spaces decision making. This chapter proposes and attempts to purposively select...
The reality of climate variability is evident across all sectors of the economy including the agricultural sector. Urban farmers in Ibadan, an indigenous city in Africa, carry various perceptions as regards climate variability which trigger their behaviour towards the stress on urban agriculture from climate variability. This study examined urban f...
Over 60% of the Nigerian population still resides within rural spaces. These rural spaces are zones of isolation with a high electricity and energy demand for enhanced livelihoods and settlement liveability. Despite the demand for electricity in these rural areas, they still remains under-serviced as far as accessibility to a stable electricity sup...
Like many developing countries over the decade, Nigeria has experienced rapid urbanization associated with numerous problems such as, among others, improper waste management practices, building development regulations and standards contraventions, environmental pollution, overcrowding, and flooding. In light of the foregoing, this article examines...
Like many developing countries over the decade, Nigeria has experienced rapid
urbanization associated with numerous problems such as, among others, improper
waste management practices, building development regulations and standards
contraventions, environmental pollution, overcrowding, and flooding. In light of the
foregoing, this article examines...
ABSTRACT
The need for landscaping spaces around dwelling units is quite essential. Majority of dwelling units in third world countries are generally unattractive and at the same time lacking basic landscape elements. Considering the various environmental problems that occurs within the country, it is no longer news that green spaces still represent...
Urban agriculture (UA) is faced with stress from climate variability and city expansion. A cross-sectional survey approach was adopted to examine the urban farmers’ perception of a varying climate in Ibadan and its impact on the future of UA in Africa. Data were collected through questionnaire, in-depth interview and authors’ mental map field obser...
Efficient allocation of spaces for all activities is a pivot role of planners in human settlements development. The rapid and unplanned growth of Ibadan has limited farmers’ access to land for urban agriculture purposes, especially in the urban local government areas (LGAs). This study examined urban farmers’ access to land for farming and the acti...
House burglary is a prevailing issue in Nigeria owing to the inefficiency of formal security institutions in dealing with incidences of urban household burglary. This study examines households and neighbourhoods’ responses to household burglary in Ibadan, Nigeria. In-depth interviews and household questionnaires were the primary data collection too...
The appearance and outlook of a city are defined by many spatial elements. Urban gardens form an integral component of such spatial elements. Urban gardens help provide a framework on which eco-friendly environment and sustainable development lies. The aesthetic, air quality purification and therapeutic benefits that these gardens provide cannot be...
This study examined the perceived climate-induced problems encountered by urban farmersin Ibadan, the farmers’ responses and adaptation strategies. Primary data were collected through the administration of a structured questionnaire, key-informant interviews and field observation. Stratified random sampling was employed in selecting 244 urban farme...
The accurate location of features in space is an attribute of good spatial planning which is often enhanced by the application of Geospatial tools (GIS, Decision Support system and Planning Support System). According to ESRI (2011), the geospatial tools help in comprehending geographical location and make intelligent decisions and these geospatial...
Urban encroachment into arable land along the peri-urban areas of Osun State, Nigeria prompted this investigation. The study is aimed at determining rate, pattern and effects of uncontrolled spatial expansion in the city. This study examines the trend in eight (8) peri-urban communities in Olorunda and Osogbo LGAs which were purposely selected. A m...
Solid waste management has been part of human activities right from time. Effort by the Oyo State Government in managing the collection and disposal of waste generated in Ibadan is seen in the provision of Skip bins at specific locations across the city. However, despite the provisions made by the government, an emerging trend is the dumping of ref...
The weak documentation of disasters has resulted into poor monitoring as regards such disaster. Urban market has been affected by incidences of inferno. Lagos state market fire saga continued throughout 2007 and began also early in 2014. The lack of documentation as regards the characteristics of this fire has limited the understanding of the marke...
Many health issues can be traced to housing condition. Building material, household equipments, size of building and building design are direct or indirect drivers of many human health problems. The study examined relationship between housing condition and the health status of the residents in Ibadan North Local Government area. Questionnaire was a...
