Lagos — From a population below 200,000 in 1946, for all Nigerian
cities two overshoot seven million population; five exceed one
million; 36 scale 200,000, 78 dust 100,000 and 50, 000 boast of more
than 20,000 each.
But amid the population explosion lies the "heaven and hell" pattern
of development which by the summary of Remi Makinde, past president of the
Nigeria Institute of Town Planners (NITP) is avoidable. So how
avoidable? How redeemable?
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