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https://mathematical7.com/m7/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Small_Oshodi-2.jpg550450This week President Muhammad Buhari, opened the new Oshodi Transport Terminal, described by some people as an architectural masterpiece. This may not be directly related to sports, but I have since realized that all of life is, indeed, connected to sport and therefore, I look at life through the prism of sport. A few years ago, I was in Kenya during the design of the urban renewal project of the Kenyan city of Mombasa. Sports consultants were actively involved in the city’s new design, incorporating sports and recreational facilities into site designs all over the city that would physically engage most citizens during their daily activities, making them healthier and to live longer through ‘active transport’, a scientific measure of the distance a person covers on a daily basis doing physical activity. So, permit me today to reproduce an article I wrote and published almost 17 years ago, about an area in Lagos that had just fulfilled a vision I had that now finds fulfilment of some sort this past week, thanks to the visionary work of Lagos State governors, Tunde Fashola, that started the project, and Akinwunmi Ambode, that completed it. Please enjoy a slightly edited version of the article in The Punch of August 22, 2002.