The paper concludes by emphasising the need for a spatial reorganisation on a national or regional basis of the current pattern of polarised urban growth in order to achieve a spatially balanced and hierarchically organised urban system in Nigeria. (DSE)

The concern is growing in Nigeria as in many other developing countries that the rural population, in spite of its size, is the most neglected in the distribution of social facilities. Even in the rural areas the spatial disparity in the location of the few available facilities aggravates the...