Nigeria: Transforming Rural Cross River With Roads

24 September 2012

The Cross River State Government's rural development programme supported by the Africa Development Bank (ADB) for the construction of rural roads in the state is changing the way people live writes Jude Okwe

Though, provision of infrastructure in most of rural Nigeria is still at the drawing board level; In Cross River, the state government has a clear idea of how to take development to the hinterlands. It has discovered that development cannot get to villages way off the urban centres unless there is accessibility. That is, Good roads.

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