PROJECT PROPOSAL

IMPACT OF URBANIZATION ON LAND VALUE OVER TIME AND SPACE IN MUBI TOWN

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Background to the Study. Nigeria has been experiencing urbanization on a large scale for

decades now. This is accompanied by expansion of its existing cities and urban centers. Opals (1984) identified two reasons to explain these phenomena. First, are the series of political and administrative decentralization that have taken place in the country since 1967, and this involved the creation of many administrative capitals at both the State and the Local Government levels. In turn, this has led to the expansion and transformation of the newly created States and Local Governments headquarters into urban centers. Second, the growth in the national economy has principally influenced urbanization process. The consequence of this situation has led to a considerable pressure on the lands of these emerging urban areas for residential, industrial, commercial purposes, among others. As a result of this growing demand for land, the urban open-spaces become threatened. Hence there is intensive competition among different land users. The competition heightened and the demand for land continued to rise.
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Consequently, this has made the available land not affordable owing to increase in land over-time and space. This research work, intends to examine the impact of urbanization on land value with particular reference to Mubi Town in Adamawa State.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM It should be noted that the issue of drugs in various schools and colleges has become a threat to both teachers and parents. Students involvement in drugs is turning our society into social vices and violence. Though our society today has became drug oriented through anti-drug campaigns on radio, newspapers and other electronic and printed media. Providing convincing proof to this statement has griped firmly into our thresholds.

The study is aimed at identifying the effect of drug-addiction on the childs educational achievement in some selected schools in Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

1.1.1 There are environmental and social factors that negatively affect the child which leads him to drug addiction. 1.1.2 The roles of the school administrators are not fully played. 1.3.3 The problems of poor parentage 1.3.4 Availability of drugs

AIM AND OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY The aim of this research work is to examine the impact of Urbanization on land value over-time and space in Mubi town.
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OBJECTIVES i.
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To examine the personal characteristics of the respondents. To examine how urbanization influences land value in Mubi Town.

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To identify the role of local and traditional institutions in influencing the value of land in Mubi Town.

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To examine ways in which established institutions influence the value of land in the area of study.

RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS i. There is no significant difference in the value of land before and after the urbanization of Mubi town. ii. There is no significant difference in the influence of Local Government, Traditional Authority and Institutions of higher learning on the value of land in Mubi.

LITERATURE REVIEW Rapid expanding city population is having deviating effects on our cities in Nigeria. According to a report by the world watch institute, cited in Awake (2001), by 2015 Lagos may be home to nearly 25 million people, rising in rank from the world's (13th) thirteen largest city to the

third largest. The rapid growth of cities has been accompanied by rapid growth in the number of urban inhabitants who live in sub-standard over crowded conditions. Boserup (1965); Kaith (1912) Lugard (1922) have identified two apposing theories regarding the evolutionary trend in land tenure systems. The evolutionary process is observed to take a gradual process through the disappearance of rights in follows and communal holding ending up in paramount right over particular pieces of land. The second is associated with urbanization, population growth and concentration, resulting in the decline of man-land ratio ending up in individual holdings. In the same vain a common pool resource or part of it, can degenerate into open access under certain kinds of pressure such as population growth, changes in production system, or the erosion of the local institutions formerly responsible for common management (Lawry, 1990, airline, 1998). Colonial and post colonial capitalism in the form of commercial agriculture, European type of urbanization, industrialization and

infrastructures development have tended to erode the communal tenure system as affirmed by Dike (1978). This has resulted into the burgeoning free selling and individualization of land tenure. According to Lunning (1963), the increasing demand for land had direct impact on land tenure patterns, where he identifies it as being most important in land demand,
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population growth, introduction of cash crops, infrastructure development and distance to markets. But he adds that none of these factors can be singled out as having had a singular influence on the demand, a number of them are usually involved. Access and accusation of land have been crucial in the history of mankind as Crocombe (1971) cited in Balami (1985) rightly put throughout the history of man, he has maintained a close contact with land, which has provided him with food and raw materials for his clothing and shelter. That is why institutions have enacted rules and regulations of control over access, holding and transfer. Such rules and regulations have been coded and backed by legislation where as in other institutions traditional methods are still in practice.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY This section of the study intends to discuss the sources of data, sample size, data collection procedure and method of data analysis. To achieve the objective of this research, both primary and secondary data will be obtained. The primary data will be source through the use of questionnaires and the secondary data will be source from past records and reports of government ministries, parastatals agencies. Also textbooks, conference/seminar papers, journals and other published materials found relevant for this study will be used.
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This research work will employ three sampling techniques, these are: simple random sampling, cluster sampling, and proportionate sampling. Both descriptive and inferential statistics will be involved in analyzing the data. Descriptive statistics such as arithmetic (mean) or average and bar chart will be used to analyse the changes in land value over time and determine the incidence of land conflicts and problem space. It will also of land acquisition in Mubi area. Inferential statistics will be employed to test some aspects of the data. ANOVA will be used to determine variation of land distribution between land use activities among wards. Chi-square will be employed to determine association between institutions as regard their influence on the prices of land, and the T-test to test whether there is difference in the prices of land before and after the state creation in 1991.