Tag: Urban
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How Gov Buni’s 131 Road Projects are Rewiring Yobe’s Economy
By Abdulkareem Haruna For 35 years, Sa’idu Malam’s community in Fika, Yobe State, lived in isolation. Despite decades of appeals to successive governments, their requests for a road were met with total silence – until now. “You might not fully appreciate how we are feeling now unless you experienced our previous difficulties,” Sa’idu says, his…
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Land Titling to Empower Maiduguri Communities ~ ACRC’s CEO
By Abdulkareem Haruna Maiduguri, Nigeria – Diana Mitlin, Professor of Global Urbanism at the University of Manchester and CEO of the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC), recently visited Maiduguri to oversee ACRC projects. We sat down with her to discuss the challenges facing African cities and how her work is making a difference, particularly in…
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