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[files] A fireman sprays water after a gas tanker caught fire, triggering explosions.Ruth McDowall / AFPWhen the President of the Association of Town Planning Consultants of Nigeria (ATOPCON), Niyi Odetoye, left home on June 17, 2021, no one had the premonition he was bidding his wife and children farewell. He never returned home alive.
In keeping with the promise of returning home with some goodies for his family, he stopped at a mall in Maryland, after the close of work on that faithful day. But minutes after picking some goodies for his family, Odetoye, a 1993 graduate of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, got caught up in the gas explosion on Mobalaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja. He was unlucky as he got consumed in the accident like eight others that died in the explosion.
The President, Association of Town Planning Consultants of Niyi, (ATOPCON), Niyi Odetoye To enhance capabilities of practitioners, the Town Planners Consultants of Nigeria (ATOPCON) has implored members to equip themselves with relevant skills in project procurement across the country. The President, ATOPCON, Niyi Odetoye, who gave the charge during the association’s two-day professional development workshop and induction of six firms in Lagos, said the major challenge that planning consultants faced was the lack of clear understanding of what project procurement was about. He stated that practitioners can’t have sustainable practice without being involved in projects, stressing that most planners complain about lack of jobs, whereas there are thousands of opportunities been churn out but, absence of requisite knowledge in the process has prevented practitioners from participating.