JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
Journal of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria
ISSN: 1597-0396
DOI: 10.5987/UJ-JSMS
Email: jsms@universityjournals.org
TOWARDS PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUSTAINABLE PHYSICAL PLANNING OF NIGERIA
DOI: 10.5987/UJ-JSMS.16.040.2 | Article Number: 7E4E098 | Vol.11 (2) - September 2016
Author: ABOTUTU Abel Ahi
Keywords: Public Private Partnership, Nigeria, Sustainable Physical Planning
The study attempts an appraisal of spatial planning as a “State function” in Nigeria, for the past 100 years (1915 – 2015). It made use of secondary data sources obtained from the reports of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP), documentaries and internet sources. The secondary sources were augmented by oral interviews. Findings reveal that two critical factors – scarcity of finance and apathy among Nigerians for government activities both combine to undermine the capacity of the Federal, State and Local Governments to carry out a full spectrum of physical planning activities. As a consequence developments in most towns and cities in the country hitherto manifest planlessness and chaos. The study recommends “Public-Private-Partnerships” (PPPs) in the discharge of physical planning functions to enable the country make in-road into sustainable spatial planning in tandem with global best practices in the new millennium.