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# INTRODUCTION

Hello my people, it's been a long time since I last posted on steemit. But then I thank God it didn't take me forever to post again. Without wasting much of our time here today am gonna quickly rush into some mightily important stuffs I'd love y'all to know about. Guess what it is? Yeah from the topic above you would easily know what I wanna say. Today we live in a world full of problems; confusions, distrust, disasters, pain, uncertainties and dissatisfaction etc. These here are just a piece of the whole lots of problems in the world today. But at the same time the world has also experience a lift from hardship since the arrival of science and technology in the history of Mankind. Now the main reason this article is about to be revealed. __**My Dream for a Better World**__. ![urban-994691_1280.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTCpJFCqQCfdFaEMvdbfbtaYgWcAUbtPiyvFNA4a3WuJ7/urban-994691_1280.jpg) [Source](https://pixabay.com/illustrations/urban-city-building-graphics-994691/)

**••••••SETTLEMENT**

Don't be carried away by the sudden mention of settlement, sometimes I like to be unpredictable when sharing my dreams with people - reason best kept secret. We can't talk about the world without pick pointing what the world really is, though our terminologies may differ but at least they mean one same thing (The World). Now, here comes my own definition of the world: The world means the earth, the countries in it, the mountains, the ocean, the atmosphere and the people including everything natural and artificial things that exists in it. Sure it's that simple, hope that's what you know the world to be? If so let's keep sailing. But hey! I also know that the world means something slightly different from the first definition too, the world also means my environment, my city, my state and country. Yeah it does! This kind of world is what I want to talk about (you can't change the whole world without changing the world around you first). Settlement is one of my major problem with my city - Uyo. ![settlement-758135_1280.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSmMW1yPt687sgXaKgDvQT1NckZ7scYbMdYDgBXvUPhKj/settlement-758135_1280.jpg) [Source](https://pixabay.com/illustrations/settlement-visualization-3d-758135/)

**••••••PLANNED SETTLEMENT**

Settlement in my City is quite questionable in a number of ways, the urban settlement in Uyo is faulty. Laws should be passed by government to harness orderliness concerning human settlement in the state. There is one major problem I have with the scattered settlement in the State. The problem is that they have eaten up space. Akwa Ibom is fast growing in terms of population coupled with the fact that development is fast driving inward, the population could be triple what we have today in just 20yrs coming. Hence, there is need for intense settlement planning by the institution that handles housing affairs in the State. Lands are being misused by both citizens and government, building estates is now the business of the day. Everyone is rushing to invest in real estate but yet the planning is so poor when considering the generation unborn. ![photo-manipulation-2035967_1280.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmWhji82CuDb9epMstjYXLZc316pbjnCakM9hSBtpVfp3N/photo-manipulation-2035967_1280.jpg) [Source](https://pixabay.com/illustrations/photo-manipulation-digital-art-2035967/)

**••••••FARM LANDS**

Presently in Nigeria we consume more than what we produce, and that has been our day to day sermon in the country. We have consumed and even consume farmlands unaware. It's bad, it's infectious, it's seriously injurious to our state of survival. In Akwa Ibom the effect of building houses on farmlands is already affecting us badly considering the hard strokes of hunger being lashed on our backs by the terrible, trembling and staggering economy of the nation. Even at the scattered settlement in Akwa Ibom the cost of living is fast strangling less privileged, they have no where to live and some are willing to work hardly for survival but due to illiteracy they only have knowledge of farming but where are the farmlands? They are the ones whose efforts would feed the whole nation but poor urban settlement has eaten up farmlands thus, they become helpless and move from rural to rural searching farmlands to work and earn their living.

**MY DREAMS**

My dream is to become an architect or an urban and regional planner so that I could help prove to my people that what is happening now is wrong, the land wastages can be so bad as time goes on. I would proffer solutions to most of these plan unknown wrongness by: * Enlightening my people on the advantages of building apartments which do not scatter around but a tall building that contains people just as bungalows would. I would tell them that these tall buildings saves land area for other purposes while working same as any other building would work. * Enlightening them on the dangers of scattering settlement, and also show them the benefits of focusing settlement on a particular environment leaving the other of the state for agricultural purposes. * Building infrastructures where it will not where necessary to encourage rural-urban business connection.

# CONCLUSION

If time would allow, I could write more than these about my dreams because I have more than hundreds of dreams concerning the world around me. Thanks for your time on my article today, I really appreciate.

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