Urban Growth and Renewal in Nigeria: The Potency of Public Private Partnership

Urban growth, development and renewal are integral part of the global focus on sustainable development in every nation. Without achieving a high level of urbanization, a Nation cannot claim to have achieved development. The study focuses on the examining the possibilities of enhancing urban growth and renewal through the public private partnership initiative. The study relied on secondary sources of data collection. The study was able to find out that the actuality of the private partnership initiative towards urban growth are usually endangered by the general climate of poor commitment, governance, policy formulation, execution gaps and disconnection as well as deliberate neglect and nonchalance created by the Nigerian government.