Ogun risks becoming Lagos’ dump site if unplanned – Varsity don warns

A Professor of Estate Management astatine the University of Lagos, Prof. Timothy Gbenga Nubi, has warned that Ogun State risks becoming a dumping crushed and dormitory for Lagos if its proximity to the nation’s commercialized superior is not decently planned.

Nubi gave the informing connected Thursday astatine the 40th day of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP), Ogun State chapter, held astatine the June 12 Cultural Centre, Abeokuta, with the theme, “Honouring the Past: Designing the Future.”

“Proximity does not make prosperity; it has to beryllium planned,” Nubi stated.

Delivering his keynote code titled “Repositioning Physical Planning for Ogun State’s Next Forty Years,” Nubi said Ogun occupies a strategically important presumption wrong the Lagos metropolitan portion but has failed to person its geographical vantage into a planned metropolitan advantage.

According to him, accelerated urbanisation on the Lagos-Ogun frontier has generated superior readying challenges, peculiarly on the Isheri-Ibafo-Mowe-Sagamu Interchange corridor.

He noted that portion planners successful the authorities recognised the enlargement of Lagos and attempted to respond with the Ogun State Regional Development Plan 2005–2025 and its Development Pressure Area framework, including the Gateway City concept, developments astir Mowe, Ibafo,...