It is a well-known fact that Nigeria has had to contend with deplorable road network in the country for many years due to lack of adequate investment in road infrastructure by successive governments to ensure the sustainable maintenance of national road network. The challenge posed by the deplorable state of road infrastructure has seriously impacted the cost of transportation of goods and services in the country.

Earlier efforts by Government to maintain, upgrade or modernise the existing highways to international standard did not yield the desired result. The reasons for this are not far-fetched; they include paltry budgetary provisions, poor project planning and design, poor supervision of works, road abuses, bureaucratic bottlenecks and lack of political will in the past to entrench institutional and legal frameworks that would transform the sector in line with international best practice.

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