page_title: Transport in Nigeria
section_title: Highways
hierarchical_section_title: Transport in Nigeria / Highways
caption_attribution_description: English: Laying Asphalt This is an image of "African people at work" from Nigeria
context_page_description: Decaying infrastructure is one of the deficiencies that Nigeria's National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy seeks to address. The government has begun to repair the country's poorly maintained road network. Because Nigeria's railways are in a perilous condition, the government is trying to rectify the situation by privatizing the Nigerian Railway Corporation. Similarly, the government is pursuing a strategy of partial port privatization by granting concessions to private port operators so that they can improve the quality of port facilities and operations.
context_section_description: Nigeria has the largest road network in West Africa and the second largest south of the Sahara, with roughly 108,000 km of surfaced roads in 1990.
  However they are poorly maintained and are often cited as a cause for the country's high rate of road fatalities. In 2004 Nigeria's Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) began to patch the 32,000 kilometre federal roads network, and in 2005 FERMA initiated a more substantial rehabilitation. The rainy season and poor equipment pose challenges to road maintenance.
  These are the portions that are already modernized at motorway and expressway standard:
  Figures from CIA World Factbook (1999):
  Total:
  194,394 km
  paved:
  60,068 km (including 1,194 km of expressways)
  unpaved:
  134,326 km (1998 est.)
  note:
  Some paved roads have lost their asphalt surface and are in very poor condition or have reverted to being gravel roads. Some of the road system is barely usable, especially in high rainfall areas of the south.
caption: Road maintenance in Nigeria
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