Showing posts with label poverty in Nigeria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty in Nigeria. Show all posts

Monday, 7 July 2014

Low investment, poor maintenance fingered for infrastructure poverty in Nigeria

Cumulative low investment and poor maintenance of national social and economic infrastructure over the years are responsible for the deficit in urban infrastructure estimated to run into trillions of naira, experts have said.
The experts add that rapid urbanisation, urban sprawl and poor governance traits, such as lack of transparency and accountability as well as massive corruption have deprived the country’s urban areas of the much needed hard and soft infrastructure, noting that this has