HOUSING CONDITIONS AND HEALTH OF RESIDENTS IN IBADAN NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, IBADAN, OYO STATE, NIGERIA

Popoola, Ayobami ¹, Tawose, Opeoluwa¹, Abatan, Stephen¹, Adeleye, Bamiji², Jiyah, Funke³, Majolagbe, Nihinlola⁴

¹Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

²Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State

³School of Preliminary Studies, Federal Polytechnic, Bida Niger State

⁴School of Nursing, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State

Email: bcoolay2@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

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 administered using household sampling technique. Simple random sampling was employed in carrying out the research to select samples for the study. This involves numbering of the buildings in the localities and ballot system was used to select 308 buildings out of 28,020 buildings in the study area for this research. Findings revealed that the housing condition of many of the houses observed can be said to be in poor state. Over 150 sampled household do not have adequate or adhere to the stipulated housing standard of 3cm air space, while half of the sampled household lacked adequate solid waste disposal method. Hospital records revealed that the illness often complained and diagnosed are plasmodiasis, typhoid, infections, and headache among others. Many of which can be traced to poor housing and environmental condition. The study recommends that inhabitants must ensure adequate space and protection against the following adverse conditions such as cold, damp, heat, rain, wind or other threats to health or structural hazards. Planning authorities must improve monitoring of newly constructed building to ensure they comply with the set space standards. The role of housing unit landscape in providing visual satisfaction, which has a profound effect on the psychological nature of man and also serve as carbon sink resulting from human activity within the environment also needs to be well reinstated.

EVALUATION OF CRITICAL SUCCESS CRITERIA FOR PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECTS IN NIGERIA 

Mohammed I.Y.

Department of Building

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria

Email: inuwamohammed76@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Public Housing supply remains one of the much talk about in Nigeria over the past thirty years. Successive Public Housing Policies attempted have been unsuccessful due to a number of reasons. The lack of success on Public Housing Programmes is also due to the lack of clearly defined success criteria which guides the housing projects from inception to completion. The reason for the adoption and application of project management and project success criteria is to deliver projects successfully, achieve enhanced output, develop framework to help follow key project result and for aiding the appropriate allocation of resources. This research seeks to determine and establish what constitute critical project success criteria for Public Housing Programmes in Nigeria. Questionnaire survey was used to bring about what is perceived as critical success criteria from respondents who have considerable experience and have been involved in Public Housing Programmes. Data analysis involving mean scores and t-test were conducted on the responses on the identified criteria to reveal and discuss its characteristics. The ‘cost of unit house’ and ‘extensive use of local materials’ were acknowledged as the most critical project success criteria and therefore were ranked First and Second whilst ‘risk taking’ was the least critical criteria. These findings could form the foundation of a framework and formulating policies which will enable project managers (PM) involved in Public Housing Programmes to channel appropriate efforts and behaviours towards ensuring successful execution.

THE PATTERN AND DRIVERS OF URBAN EXPANSION IN GREATER LAGOS FROM 1984 TO 2006

O. E. Abiodun, J. B. Olaleye, J. O. Olusina and O. G. Omogunloye

Department of Surveying and Geo-informatics

University of Lagos, Lagos

E-mail:    abiodunoludayo@yahoo.com; oabiodun@unilag.edu.ng

ABSTRACT

Urban expansion has been identified as a major cause of global climatic and environmental changes, which are predicted to accelerate in the 21^st century with unknown and potentially serious implications to life and the environment. Accurate and up-to-date information about urban expansion in terms of changes in urban area is needed for sustainable urban planning. Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world and may experience the most serious implication of this change in the whole of West Africa. Lagos has witnessed great urban sprawl in recent times, annexing nearby villages and spreading fast into the neighbouring states. This growth and physical expansion is virtually undocumented and adequate planning to prevent great consequences of this development is therefore impossible. In this work, LandSat imagery (1984, 2001, and 2006) was processed and overlaid on the Lagos State administrative map in a GIS environment. Changes in linear expansion were recorded from a 1Km X 1Km grid while areal changes were recorded from a grid of 25Km X 20Km imposed on the map. Results of the linear changes in a few selected locations and the results of the areal changes in all the cells are presented. The result shows a fast growth of urban expansion in Lagos from 1984 to 2001 and from 2001 to 2006. The result was discussed and inferences were drawn on the drivers of urban expansion in Lagos.

SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION IN RAINFALL OVER SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA

Ozabor .F and Obisesan .A

Department of Geography and Environmental Management

University of Port-Harcourt,Port-Harcourt

E-mail: Famphidoz@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

This study is on thespatio-temporal variation in rainfall over south-western Nigeria. The study adopts the ex-post facto research design. Three grand stations (Oshogbo; Ibadan and Ikeja) of the five in the region were selected for this study. Secondary annual rainfall data for two climatic normal were collected from the archive of NIMET. The Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was adopted for the purpose of data analysis. Findings include that in the first decade (1955-1965), the rainfall amount for ikeja was 1718.25mm, Ibadan is 1375.36mm and Oshogbo is 1636.28mm. The decade 1965-1975, Ikeja recorded rainfall amount of 1745.47mm; but the amount of rainfall generated for Ibadan was more than that of Oshogbo as they both recorded 1381.61mm and 1345.41mm respectively. Furthermore, Lagos seem to have experienced dryer conditions in the decade 1985-1995 as the amount (1280.139mm) of rainfall generated for that decade was lower than that of Oshogbo (1393.42mm). In terms of anomalies, the individual stations in the study showed that while some periods are anomaly wet others are dry. However, in the display of anomalies in the observed rainfall patterns, the last decades in all the stations are anomaly wet, thereby creating a departure from the trends. However, the ANOVA model is significant at P (0.001) < 0.05. This signifies that there is a statistical significant variation in the rainfall amounts generated among weather stations in the region for the two normal of interest.

A REVIEW OF ALL RISKS YIELD AND IMPLIED RENTAL GROWTH RATE EMBEDDED IN THE EQUATED YIELD HYBRID MODEL OF PROPERTY INVESTMENT VALUATION

Ataguba, Joseph Obaje and Tinufa, Anthony Abbey

 Department of Estate Management and Valuation

School of Environmental Studies, The Federal Polytechnic Idah, Nigeria

E-mail: josephtgb81@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The real value/equated yield hybrid model otherwise known as the Crosby’s 3-YPs model is a contemporary value model which deploys nominal rate of interest (equated yield), rent review, and inflation risk free yield to the discounting of cash flows of property investments. Notwithstanding its robust features in the valuation of incomes with growth potentials, this model has been observed to be implicit about all risks yield and implied rental growth rate per annum such that they might only be known to the valuer who prepared the valuation; unless additional information on these parameters are provided with the valuation in question. This article evaluates an alternative perspective of how implied rental growth rate per annum and all risks yield are embedded in the Crosby’s real value/equated yield hybrid model. An analytical framework which culminated into the derivation of all risks yield and implied rental growth rate per annum from the real value/equated yield model was designed. Thereafter, the synergy between the 3-YPs model and the derived formulas were evaluated with recourse to the valuation of fully let- and reversionary freehold interests respectively. Results indicate that the all risks yield and implied rental growth rate per annum are embedded in the 3-YPs model. It also was observed that this phenomenon was facilitate by equated yield and rent review period which are the variables commonly found in the formula for all risks yield, implied rental growth rate and the 3-YPs model. The formula derivation process and results from the individual valuation cases revealed that all risks yield and implied rental growth rate are adequately captured in the real value/equated yield hybrid model such that valuations ensuing from this model would not deviate from those produced by the growth explicit discounted cash flow (DCF) technique.