Michael Ojuroye Initiative (Ngo)

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False dawn in railway sector A road trip across Nigeria today is an exercise in delays and anguish. Not only are the roads decrepit, an endless caravan of trailers and trucks hauling petroleum products and other goods from one point to the other compounds the chaos around the country. Countless trucks park illegally on the kerb, creating a disorderly spectacle. Ordinarily, most of these goods should be ferried by rail. But in the past 20 years or so, the rail system has broken down. Consequently, Nigerians now move goods by road. This is an anomaly. The trucks have caused untold hardship to road users: they are slow in speed, thereby clogging the roads; and their weights destroy the roads. The Corps-Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Osita Chidoka, recently warned, “As of last year, 5,000 trucks plied our roads daily to move about 150 million litres of fuel we consumed. If the … economy grows as it’s being projected, this means that Nigeria would require 20,000 trucks daily...