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Title: AN INTERROGATION OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES OF THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ABUJA, 1979-2007
Authors: ICHABA, ABIYE EMMANUEL; 2EZEOGUERI-OYEWOLE, ANNE NNENNA; 3ANISERE, STEVEN CLAY,
Volume:2 Issue: 8
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1 ICHABA, ABIYE EMMANUEL, (Ph.D.); 2EZEOGUERI-OYEWOLE, ANNE NNENNA, (Ph.D.); 3ANISERE, STEVEN CLAY, (Ph.D.) 1. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, KOGI STATE UNIVERSITY, AYINGBA, NIGERIA. 2. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, FACULTY OF ARTS & HUMANITIES, KOGI STATE UNIVERSITY, ANYINGBA, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA. 3. DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ESCAE UNIVERSITY, PORTO-NOVO, REPUBLIC OF BENIN.
MLA 8 EMMANUEL, ICHABA, ABIYE, et al. "AN INTERROGATION OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES OF THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ABUJA, 1979-2007." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 2, no. 8, Aug. 2018, pp. 436-462, ijah.org/more2018.php?id=29. Accessed Aug. 2018. APA EMMANUEL, I., ANNE NNENNA, E., & STEVEN CLAY, A. (2018, August). AN INTERROGATION OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES OF THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ABUJA, 1979-2007. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 2(8), 436-462. Retrieved from ijah.org/more2018.php?id=29 Chicago EMMANUEL, ICHABA, ABIYE, EZEOGUERI-OYEWOLE ANNE NNENNA, and ANISERE, STEVEN CLAY. "AN INTERROGATION OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES OF THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ABUJA, 1979-2007." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 2, no. 8 (August 2018), 436-462. Accessed August, 2018. ijah.org/more2018.php?id=29.
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Keywords: Development, Urbanization and Urban-decay
Abstract: The foundation, development and eventual relocation of the Seat of the Federal Government to Abuja as Nigeria's new Capital Territory in December 1991, was a result of a carefully orchestrated policy of the Federal Government. Between 1980 (when physical construction work began in the area) and 1991 (when the Seat of Government was relocated from Lagos to the FCT), the city of Abuja witnessed massive development and remarkable transformation (or urbanization). However, the phenomenal transformation of the erstwhile undeveloped Abuja village area was at once dynamic and circumscribed; an enviable testimony to a well-planned and laid-out Capital City, whose adjourning satellite towns such as Karu, Nyanya, Gwagwalada and so on, were in inverse proportion to the aesthetic splendour of the Federal Capital City (FCC or City Centre). In other words, most of the satellite towns and surrounding settlements such as Keffi, Suleja, Minna and so on, appear more as mere accidental conglomeration of buildings and peoples, brought together by fate in a particular environment. That is, without plan, clear purpose or taste for living. Most of the earlier works were mostly undertaken by both the government and interested (partisan) writers, painting glitzy pictures of the Territory at the expense of balanced history. Issues like the changing patterns of development and its inherent problem in the FCT were hardly addressed. Among other issues examined are: Is the Abuja Master-Plan a mere government's cajoling tool for blindfolding Nigerians or is it a true strategic plan for sustainable development of the new FCT? What was the purpose of total neglect of the fourth phase of development of the FCT within the spectrum of government transformation of the FCT between 2003 and 2007? It is hope the paper would comprehensively outline and document such novel issues as the internal stimulant of development within the matrix of 'external' influence, dynamics and contradictions of development (the emergence of urban decay) in the new and beautiful capital city, as well as the entire Territory. Essentially, the paper is an attempt to document contemporary history of the FCT, Abuja, when most of the key-players are still alive, and attempts a modest contribution to knowledge in this regards. Finally, the paper concludes on the note that even in the FCT, Abuja, the rich also cry in spite of the widespread impression (rightly or wrongly) that, "the Nigeria's petrol-dollars flow on the streets of Abuja".
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