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Section of a bad unmotarable road in Nigeria
Nigeria, popularly referred to as giants of Africa, is not among the top 30 nations in the continent with good roads.
This is despite a whooping budget of N2,091.62trillion on roads in the 13-year period covered by the survey.
The Global Economy ranked Nigeria as the 31stcountry with the ‘nicest and enjoyable’ good roads in Africa in the last 13 years.
Nigeria was ranked 31 out of the 38 African nations listed in the survey.
Here is the list of African Countries with the best roads:
1. Namibia
2. Egypt
3. Rwanda
4. Mauritius
5. Morocco
6. South Africa
7. Kenya
8. Senegal
9. Tanzania
10. Algeria
11. Cape Verde.
12. Seychelles
13. Switzerland
14. Burundi
15. Botswana
16. The Gambia
17. Guinea Source
18. Uganda
19. Ivory Coast
20. Tunisia
21. Zambia
22. Benin
23. Mali
24. Ethiopia
25. Ghana
26. Burkina Faso
27. Malawi
28. Zimbabwe
29. Lesotho
30. Gabon
31. Nigeria
32. Cameroon
33. Mozambique
34. Angola
35. DR Congo
36. Madagascar
37. Mauritania
38. Chad
Below is the breakdown of the yearly allocations for road construction from 2006-2019 in Nigeria:
N67.7 billion – 2006
N71.6 billion – 2007
N67.9 billion – 2008
N198.6 billion – 2009
N210.7 billion – 2010
N128.9 billion – 2011
N133 billion – 2012
N141 billion – 2013
N106.3 billion – 2014
N17.8 billion – 2015
N132.4 billion – 2016
N263.28 billion – 2017
N344 billion – 2018
N208.44 billion – 2019.
(The Nation)
