The whole scenario changes. The trees have disappeared. Still enjoy the morning and evening walks, but I see mud houses, patched footpaths, ducks and mother hen with her chicks chuckling. I see the goats roaming about, grazing freely. A more village-like setting. Hmmm!
Browsing: Gbenga Onabanjo
Corruption is defined as “a form of dishonest or unethical conduct by a person entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire personal benefits”. In Nigeria, corruption has become systemic, hence the passionate drive for a collective effort to confront it head on.
The following are guidelines to help in achieving this objective.
The ambience, beauty, serenity, scenery, character, and the soul of the environment all enhance individual experiences and they go a long way in making people embrace and take ownership of their space. This affects the wellness and total wellbeing of the individual.
As a student of the history of Architecture and the Built Environment in Nigeria, there is a serious cause for concern about the trend our Built Environment is taking when viewed against its sustainability. This calls for urgent concern.
Every society needs love, shows love and can do with a love-rich world. After all, love makes the world to go round.
Onabanjo is the founder of GO-FORTE FOUNDATION, an organisation dedicated to the restoration of the environment
A few adjustments of our attitudes can make a lot of difference. I encourage you to carry out some of the following suggestions or initiatives. These will make your neighbourhood cleaner, healthier, nicer and pollution-free for everyone.
A beautiful, clean, orderly and healthy city is an attraction for people to live, work, relax and visit. This is the area of any urban thinker, and it is the philosophy that birthed the creation of Dubai.
As part of its Corporate Social Investment initiative, the financial institution’s Marketing and Corporate Communications Department renovated the SOS Children’s Villages, Social Centre, located at Isolo in Lagos State.
The outcome of this summit resulted in the various junction improvements within the state. The aftermath of the summit was the radical shift from the traditional roundabouts, bequeathed to us by Britain, to signalised junctions, a pro-American initiative. One is largely dependent on the availability of power for the signals, whilst the other is dependent on drivers’ discipline and enlightenment.
Another school of thought believes that our mind is like a tabula rasa (blank slate). The experiences we gather through formal and informal education over time fill in the blank gradually and influence our thought process which then translates to the way we create the environment in which we live.
Transportation, being the first and major pillar of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s THEMES programme for the development of the state, underscores the need to fast-track the completion of the Blue Line project, which will help in actualising the objective of their programme.
The uncertainty of the scope of works usually arises because Project Boards, which statutorily are meant to be installed at the sites for information, are never done. This gives rise to a lot of speculations.