Transportation - The Road To Nowhere By Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai

Admin Fields Highlight on homepage: No Top Item: Highlight as a Top Item By Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) once printed a poster with the slogan our take home pay cannot take us home. The same clich can be applied to most Nigerian workers who have very little left to live on after deducting the high cost of transportation. But beyond the high transport fares occasioned by grossly inadequate infrastructure and the absence of public transit systems, transportation is critical for economic growth in every country. And because transport is valued primarily as an input to other socio-economic activities, it is easy not to appreciate it critical importance, it's multi-modal nature and the debilitating consequences of the absence ofits affordable availability.read more
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