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    OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONAL SAFETY EFFICIENCY OF COMMERCIAL MOTORCYCLE AND TRICYCLE OPERATIONS IN MINNA, NIGERIA
    (Centre for Human Settlements and Urban Development, 2024) Morenikeji Wole; SANNI, L. M.; ADELEYE, B. M.; MUSA, H. D.
    The tricycle (Keke-NAPEP), the government's poverty alleviation initiative, is a rapidly developing paratransit alternative in Nigeria. Due to the lack of an urban transportation strategy, alternatives such as tricycles and motorcycles have grown in popularity. This study compares the two modes of paratransit for commercial operation to determine how their unique qualities, notably ownership, affect their long-term viability. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 96 tricycle and 180 motorcycle operators in Minna using a questionnaire and a non-probabilistic sampling approach. Descriptive statistics and chisquared analysis were used to analyse the data. Statistically significance difference was found between the Owner - operated paratransit (tricycle N4,860.98; motorcycle N3,503.64) who make more profit than the non-owner operators (tricycle N2,200; motorcycle N1,755.17). In terms of maintenance costs, a tricycle (Mdn = N5,000 per month) costs more than a motorcycle (Mdn = N4,000). Furthermore, more tricycles (89.58%) than motorcycles (33.33%) had their two side mirrors intact and so also the two trafficators (tricycles 90.63%; motorcycles(76.19%). Approximately 14% of motorcycle operators thought their mode was unsafe, compared to 0.56 % of tricycle users. We suggest that the government build a pathway for soft lending programmes to stimulate the acquisition of tricycles for business transportation, as well as upgrade the downtown road network to entice tricycle operators to fill the void left by the enforced ban on motorcycle transportation.
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    SPATIAL INVENTORY OF TOURISTS SITES IN ZUNGERU FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN NIGER STATE NIGERIA
    (Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies & Management, 2018) SHAIBU, S.I.; MEDAYESE, S.O.; MUSA, H. D.
    Tourism is a veritable industry a country requires for its national development. It involves the travel of tourists away from their homes for purposes of sightseeing in a different environment, and in most cases involves sleeping away from home. In Zungeru town of Wushishi Local Government Area of Niger State, there are varied physical and human potentials which can be harnessed for veritable tourism development. Such potentials include water resources; conducive environment; conducive and friendly natural landscape; fertile agricultural arable soil; fairly motor able road net - work; nodal railway net - work and a potential river port development. Investigations showed that despite these viable potentials that exist, tourism development in the area still at abysmal level. There is the need to tap the natural and man-made tourism resources available in the area, and hence professional recommendations were offered for the proper and full utilization of the resources for the overall land sustainable development of Niger state and Nigeria in general.