Browsing by Author "Adamu, Musa Eya"

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    Assessment of Traffic Congestion in Karu Urban Area, Nasarawa State, Nigeria
    (Department of Geography, Nasarawa State State University Keffi, 2018-01-01) Adamu, Musa Eya; Nasiru, Idris Medugu; Abubakar, Mahmud
    Traffic congestion is a major setback in most of our towns and cities in Nigeria and across the world which limits spatial interaction between various neighbourhood within cities centre's and peri urban areas, metropolitan areas and sub cities sub- centres. This paper assessed traffic congestion in various point associated with landuse components. This study quantify traffic congestion at Abacha road junction, maraba central (Aso pada junction) and Ado junction using passenger car unit (p.c.u) value. The use of passenger car unit value employed hypothetical techniques influencing the factors such as mode of transport, peak hourly movement, pedestrian movement, road surface conditions based on the facts that this method is significantly related to urban landuse. Traffic congestion occurred when traffic is delayed due to the presence of excess number of vehicle on the same portion of road way at a particular time resulting to slower than the normal or 'free flow1 speed where is shall be queues of vehicles trying to use the road excess the designed capacity of the road. High traffic flow point corresponds to a higher degree of congestion in respective location and the result was validated in the field. The passenger car unit value quantified traffic congestion since it focus on the network congestion while, other work focused on broad links on flow of traffic in Karu urban are
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    ROLES OF LAND ADMINISTRATION AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT IN KEFFI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, NASARAWA STATE, NIGERI
    (Department of Environmental Management, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2019-10-10) Adamu, Musa Eya; Abubakar, Mahmud; Kadafa, A.A.; Alkali, Mohammed
    , , This paper examines the roles of land administration and physical development in Keffi Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, Nigeria and attempted tracing if these roles were achieved. It identified the various instruments for land use administration, physical development, management policies, regulatory system and rated effectiveness in the study area. The study affirmed that many of the land administration tools are not effective especially, the Landuse Act of 1978 Urban and Regional Planning Law Decree No: 88 of 1992, an implication of uncoordinated land use management in context of developing world cities and suggests how to improve the present practices. The paper draws on a systematic survey of land use mechanisms and activities, departments and agencies of government responsible for land administration aid physical development as well as individual, community involved in land use activities including land owners m the study area. The paper revealed that land administration in the study area has not been unanimously concerned with the granting of statutoiy right of occupancy and approval of plans to use land for a particular purposes, without adequate monitoring of its outcomes. It also shows that land management and control tools are either not available or weakly implemented disjointed and uncoordinated since several organizations and agencies are involved without approval or an overall land use plan within which effective land use management can be undertaken. The study concludes that unnl and unless land administration and physical planning authority are actively enforced. It suggests a reorganization of land administration^ urban land t*e planning and physical development machinery in the area and institutionalization of Local Planning Authority. The study also recommended that land administration and physical development should be supported by government, community, corporate organization and individual to achieve their roles.