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Article: NIGERIA-TRANSPORT: ROADS IN IGBOLAND IN DISMAL SHAPE
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- September 12, 2003
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LAGOS, Sep. 11 (IPS/GIN) -- A journey that usually takes less
than three hours in the southeastern region of Nigeria now takes
more than six hours if the vehicles and passengers are lucky enough
to reach their destination in one piece. Many lives have been lost,
while goods worth billions of naira have perished as a result of
the bad state of the road. Some portions of the highways have been
washed away or cut off by erosion.
"It is worse than hell. (The roads) are very, very bad," says
Adeseye Ogunlewe, Nigeria's Minister of Works, who made a trip to
primarily Igbo southeast Nigeria recently.
The dismal state of the roads has been a subject of concern to
both ...