Some 85% of Nigerian roads are in bad condition, according to a federal government agency, Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP).
The local media on Thursday quoted the National Coordinator of RAMP, Mr. Ubandoma Ularamu, as saying only 15% of the more than 160,000 kilometres of secondary and tertiary roads in the country were motorable.
He said the worst hit were the roads under the supervision of local governments, 70% of which he said were impassable.
The RAMP official therefore said since large populations of Nigerians lived in rural areas, the problem of bad roads was affecting the country’s economy.
He said farmers in the country faced the challenges of high transportation cost, long travel time, huge post-harvest losses and a high rate of auto accidents as a result of the bad roads.