CAUSES OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECT ABANDONMENT AND FAILURES IN NIGERIA:A CASE STUDY OF ITUKU OZALLA, ENUGU STATE

ABSTRACT Failures and Abandoned Construction Projects can pose considerable challenges both to client, contractors and the economy at large. Using both primary and secondary sources of data, the research determines the causes and effects of abandonment of construction projects in Nigeria. The research obtains data on some abandoned projects, cutting across cities in Nigeria. The research employs the statistical technique of central tendencies (mean score) and independent sample t test for the evaluation and analysis of the data on the causative factors as well as the impact of failure and abandonment. Research findings established Crises, delay in payment, poor feasibility and viability study, incomprehensive drawings and Corruption for abandonment. The study revealed wastage of resources, lowering standard of living, criminal hid out, use for kidnappings, breeding ground for organism, reduction of employment, decrease in revenue, disappointing people and refuse waste duping, as the impacts of abandonment. The research concludes that fund related factors such as unanticipated inflation, errors in estimation and bankruptcy have a relative higher propensity to lead to abandonment that other causes lead to abandonment. The research recommends that fund related causative factors of abandonment (adequate funding/capital budgeting) be given due consideration at the conceptual stage of projects; this will invariably minimize incidence of abandonment.