Browsing by Author "Aduloju, Olalekan Tolulope Bodunrin"

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    Correlates of Police Stations and Crime Management in Ilorin Metropolis
    (Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Federal University of Technology, Akure, 2023) Anofi, Abdulfatai Olanrewaju; Aduloju, Olalekan Tolulope Bodunrin; Bako, Abdullateef Iyanda; Moshood, Bukola Baheedoh
    Police stations are an important and visible aspect of police force organisation. A survey was conducted in Ilorin metropolis to examine the spatial distribution of police stations and their correlation with crime prevention and control. Data were gathered from both primary and secondary sources, with 120 copies of questionnaire administered. Data on the spatial locations of police stations were obtained from reports, the Nigeria Police Force, and journals. The study revealed that the majority of residents in the area were underserved by police stations, indicating a shortage of police personnel to combat crime. The current ratio of one police personnel to 1,318 persons was far lower than the ratio of 1:450 persons recommended by the United Nations. The study recommended that the government recruit more personnel into the police force, apply physical planning mechanisms to strategically locate new police stations, and adopt new technologies, such as GIS, to combat crime.
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    Environmental Justice and Land Acquisition in Lagos, Nigeria
    (Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Uyo, Nigeria, 2020) Anofi, Abdulfatai Olanrewaju; Effiong, Augustine Edet; Aduloju, Olalekan Tolulope Bodunrin
    Conceptually, environmental justice emanated from the United States in the early 1980s but has evolved primarily to advance equity in the distribution of environmental benefits and consequences. By extension, it has become an omnibus conception bordering on social inclusion, good governance and environmental sustainability with both political and economic indices. In a developing country like Nigeria, access to land and natural resources are integrated into the paradigm of environmental justice. This paper explores, in part, the provision for large-scale land acquisition within the context of environmental justice as it affects the rights of the natives to drive home the seeming injustice in the process in the Lekki region by the Lagos State Government (LASG) and its long-drawn aftermath. Development of comprehensive land policies and appropriate revision of land-related sectoral laws are therefore advocated to guarantee net gains for the original/traditional landowners.
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    Urban agriculture and safe city concepts: palpable links for the urban poor in Ilorin, Nigeria
    (Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Ilorin, 2022) Aduloju, Olalekan Tolulope Bodunrin; Akinbamijo, O.B.; Bako, Abdullateef Iyanda; Anofi, Abdulfatai Olanrewaju; Oladimeji, Samuel Bolaji
    Divers urban populations, including the poor, adduced urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) as essential food sources. Urban agriculture (UA) as a safe city concept is increasingly considered a building block in ensuring safe living and economic prosperity and as a leeway of returning the cities to city dwellers. Arguments favouring safe cities revolve around claims that they are more efficient, inclusive and sustainable. Integration of UA into the safe city concept provides an intervention to quadruplicate issues tied to livelihood, access to resources, knowledge and rights of the urban poor. Based on the preceding premise, this study assesses urban agriculture vis-à-vis strategies and contributions of UA to the livelihoods of the urban poor in Ilorin, with a view to enhancing a safe city. The study employed data from primary and secondary data sources for the methodology. Also, questionnaire administration, interview guide, personal observation and GPS all sufficed for the data instrumentation. Therefore, this study identified 11 areas within the Ilorin metropolis where UA is profoundly and widely practised. All these amounted to (144) UA sites surveyed. Descriptive analysis was employed to show charts and tables. Key findings revealed that nearly 15Ha of land was committed to UA in the Ilorin metropolis and spatial analysis through Average Nearest Neighbour Analysis (ANNA) revealed that UA sites were clustered and not randomly distributed. Also, the UA industry efficiently employs close to 902 persons annually and has raised the real income of almost 50% of poor people in Ilorin. The study concludes that city managers embrace broader responsibility by developing new ways of incorporating new UA functions in the urban planning system that would guarantee a safe city.