Department/Unit: Urban and Regional Planning
Qualifications: Bachelors (Urban & Regional Planning); Master (Urban & Regional Planning); PGD (Urban Land Policy & Implementation); PhD (Geography & Environmental Science); Member, Nigerian Institute of Town Planners
PhD Institution: Stellenbosch University
PhD dissertation title: Policy Implication of the Spatial and Structural relationships of the informal and formal businesses in Urban Nigeria: The Case of Enugu (1990-2010)
Current research interests and projects: Urban Planning for Healthy Cities; Planning Education; Urban Economic Development
Selected publication 1: Onwujekwe, O., Mbachu, C., Onyebueke, V., Ogbozor, P., Arize, I., Okeke, C. & Ensor, T. (2022). Stakeholders’ perspectives and willingness to institutionalize linkages between the formal health system and informal healthcare providers in urban slums in southeast, Nigeria. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1), 1-14.
Selected publication 2: Osiyi, D. S. and Onyebueke, V. U. (2022).Career Choices in the ‘Century of Urbanization’: A Comparative Study of Student Enrollments in Nigerian Universities from Urban Planning Perspective. In Diko, S., Hollstein, L. & Palazzo, D. (Eds.). Professional Awareness and Diversity Challenges in Urban Planning Education. New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
Selected publication 3: Onyishi, C., Ejike-Alieji, A. U. P., Ajaero, C., Mbaegbu, C. C., Ezeibe, C., Onyebueke V. U. & Nzeadibe, C. (2021). Covid-19 pandemic and informal urban governance in Africa: A political economy perspective. Journal of Asian and African studies, 56(6), 1226-1250
Selected publication 4: Onyebueke, V. U., Ujah, O., Walker, J., Lipietz, B., & Ohaeri, V. (2020). Original Dataset on Urban Infrastructure Related Displacements in Nigeria: Insights from National and Sub-national Levels. Data in Brief, 106367.
Selected publication 5: Onyebueke, V. U., Walker, J., Lipietz, B., Ohaeri, V. & Ujah, O. (2020). Evicting the poor in the ‘overriding public interest’: Crisis of rights and interests, and contestations in Nigerian cities. Cities (Elsevier), 101, 102675. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102675
Selected publication 6: Walker, J., Lipietz, B., Onyebueke, V. U., Ohaeri, V. & Ujah, O. (2020). Displacement and the public interest in Nigeria: Contesting the legitimacy of displacement through knowledge practices. Development in Practice (Taylor & Francis), 30 (2), 332-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2019.1694642
Selected publication 7: Onyebueke, V. U., Walker, J., Lipietz, B., Ujah, O. & Ohaeri, V. (2020). Urbanisation-induced Displacements in Peri-urban Areas: Clashes between Customary tenure and Statutory Practices in Ugbo-Okonkwo Community in Enugu, Nigeria. Land Use Policy.
Selected publication 8: Chigbu, U. E., & Onyebueke, V. U. (2021). The COVID-19 pandemic in informal settlements:(re) considering urban planning interventions. The Town Planning Review, 92(1), 115-121.
Selected publication 9: Onyebueke, V. U., & Ndukwu, R. I. (2017). Neo-customary Turn in Urban Land/Settlement Delivery and the Sprawl Question in Peri-urban Enugu, Nigeria. Trialog: A Journal of Planning and Building in the Global Context. 128, 1(2017), 35-39.
Selected publication 10: Onyebueke, V. U. and Anierobi C. (2014). Partial Relocation and Defiance in the Dhamidja-Azikiwe Informal Shopping Belt in Enugu, Nigeria: When Voice speaks louder than (Planning) Action’. In Duminy, J., Andreasen, J., Lerise, F, Odendaal, N., & Watson, V. (Eds.), Planning and the Case Study Method in Africa: The Planners in Dirty Shoes (pp. 129-154). London, England: Palgrave-Macmillan Publishers.
Capstone assignment title: Patterns and Trends in PhD Production in Nigeria: The University of Nigeria Example (2008 - 2018)
Capstone assignment abstract: Abstract Against the backdrop of global massification in higher education, African university systems are experiencing far-reaching transformations. Though most of them are rearing from crushing challenges of funding shortages (for both institutions and students), low institutional capacity, poor supervisory capacity, to mention a few, that hinder both quantitative and qualitative escalation of higher degrees, especially PhDs. Besides these perennial problems, which have been widely researched and targeted, the general neglect of institutional research has been linked to poor planning, performance assessment and even quality control. The current research is an attempt to glimpse into PhD production in the Nigerian university system by stripping the ‘ceremonial veneer’ of higher degree graduations to monitor institutional performance. The main goal of the study is to scrutinise the recent patterns and trends in doctoral graduation (PhD production) in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) from 2008 to 2018 with a view to assessing its performance in the past ten years. Among other things, it was found that UNN produced a total of 3145 PhDs in diverse fields in the decade under review, out which 65.4% are males while 34.6% are females. Quantitatively speaking, barring slight differentials in periods and limited availability of institutional data (with particular reference to Nigerian universities), one can infer that UNN’s PhD output appear to compare favourably with top universities in Nigeria and South Africa in terms of total annual output. In concluding, a few questions for further studies are raised.
