{"id":5916,"date":"2017-08-28T03:43:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T03:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/ex-un-habitat-chief-prescribes-sustainable-development-strategies-for-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T12:12:57","slug":"ex-un-habitat-chief-prescribes-sustainable-development-strategies-for-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/ex-un-habitat-chief-prescribes-sustainable-development-strategies-for-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UN-Habitat chief prescribes sustainable development strategies for Nigeria\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_288663\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/754645dc8942d4dfb0762e6050ed26d0.jpg?resize=1280%2C719&#038;ssl=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/plugins\/ventra-lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?ssl=1\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/754645dc8942d4dfb0762e6050ed26d0.jpg 1200w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-640x359.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-974x547.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-600x337.jpg 600w\" class=\"wp-image-288663 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-288663 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/754645dc8942d4dfb0762e6050ed26d0.jpg?resize=1280%2C719&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/754645dc8942d4dfb0762e6050ed26d0.jpg 1200w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-640x359.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-974x547.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/UN-HABITAT-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Regional Director for Africa, UN Habitat, Prof. Banji Oyelaran \u2013 Oyeyinka, has advocated for a paradigm shift in Nigeria\u2019s sustainable development, towards eliminating poverty and attaining equitable outcomes for the majority through industrialization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The former Regional Director for Africa, UN Habitat, Prof. Banji Oyelaran \u2013 Oyeyinka, has advocated for a paradigm shift in Nigeria\u2019s sustainable development, towards\u00a0eliminating poverty and attaining equitable outcomes for the majority through industrialization.<\/p>\n<p>Oyelaran -Oyeyinka, who delivered lecture of the Oba (Dr.) Kayode Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair of Governance recently at the OGD Hall, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, generated innovative ideas and fresh insights that will assist the search for economic redemption.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on \u2018From Consumption to Production: A Roadmap for Getting Nigeria out of Economic Recession\u2019, the professorial fellow at the United Nations University, Mastricht, Netherlands and the Open University, United Kingdom,\u00a0noted that the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for all countries is an emphasis on productive activities represented by three core goals namely, Goal 8: \u201cPromote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all\u201d, and Goal 9: \u201cBuild resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The don unearthed how Nigeria found itself in this bad governance. \u201cThe architects of Nigeria\u2019s various Development Plans rightly believed in the transforming power of rapid industrialization fuelled by the acquisition of highly-intensive large-scale industrial plants such as iron and steel, petrochemicals and aluminium plants. Unfortunately, they were far less informed about the complexity of and the often tortuous and risky path of mastering these technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo compound this fundamental misconception, these planners were far too sanguine and too optimistic about the technical and institutional capacities of our country in the 1970s to absorb a knowledge set that was largely alien to the Nigerian environment. At the policy level, much of the decisions relied on public servants, with the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/really-nice-property\/\"   title=\"advice\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">advice<\/a> of young engineers relying on no more than theoretical knowledge of how industry works, assumed the enormous responsibilities of planning and managing large-scale process plants, which were roles for which they were ill-prepared. As history shows, public ownership of industry in Nigeria has achieved minimal success. Parastatal industries, which were largely import substituting, were grossly inefficient. They were generally plagued by excess capacity because of the inability to maintain plants locally, to substitute local for foreign materials, and to provide basic technical management skills. Plants also faced perennial shortages of basic components and parts, which are commonplace items within the industrial system of advanced economies. More critically, it would seem that misplaced assumptions by Nigerian planners concerning the nature of industrial systems underpinned the decision to establish these industries.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Nigerian economy has significant structural weakness, which has made it impossible for Nigerian workers to benefit from the growth in GDP. \u201cA real transformation should be broad based and improve social conditions especially job creation, inclusion and poverty reduction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCountries that make social and economic progress do experience structural transformation. Structural change is the change in an economy\u2019s structure from low productivity, labour intensive activities to higher productivity, capital and skill intensive activities,\u201d Oyelaran \u2013Oyeyinka posited.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Ayo Olukotun of the Department of Political Science, Olabisi Onabanjo University,\u00a0 said that there are conflicting reports, as to whether Nigeria is out of the current recession marginally, or whether its economy is still very much in the throes of the ongoing recession.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe problems we face are not contingent but structural, they are nor emergent but systemic. What are required therefore are panaceas beyond the over generalizations that politicians and publicists <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/tips-for-house-price-negotiation\/\">offer<\/a>. Nigeria cannot realize this aspiration under the current arrangement of the de-industrialization of the country, marked by the shut-down or relocation to other countries of industries that were once located here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a hre=\"http:\/\/guardian.ng\/property\/ex-un-habitat-chief-prescribes-sustainable-development-strategies-for-nigeria\/\"> Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Regional Director for Africa, UN Habitat, Prof. Banji Oyelaran \u2013 Oyeyinka, has advocated for a &hellip; <a title=\"Ex-UN-Habitat chief prescribes sustainable development strategies for Nigeria\u00a0\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/ex-un-habitat-chief-prescribes-sustainable-development-strategies-for-nigeria\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ex-UN-Habitat chief prescribes sustainable development strategies for Nigeria\u00a0<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[519,4751,1399,3124,3058,522,2886,1007,41,3059,15282],"class_list":["post-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-africa","tag-amazing","tag-development","tag-engineers","tag-location","tag-nigeria","tag-optimistic","tag-owners","tag-property","tag-relocation","tag-ross"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/UN-HABITAT.jpg?fit=1200%2C674&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94129,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/94129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}