We must reckon that irrespective of the humungous cost of meeting the road infrastructure development challenges, we must now factor in all costs, the positive and negative environmental aspects and impact of the said projects on the users and how it may contribute to the effects of climate change. This approach, dubbed the "GRID" applies Quality Infrastructure Development (QII), was developed by the World bank and can be adapted to Nigeria's particular road infrastructure budgeting and projects

1. CHANGING NIGERIA’S ROAD
INFRASTRUCTURE
DEVELOPMENT STORY: A GRID
APPROACH
WBGx IQI01x Final Project:
Investing in Quality Infrastructure for a Green, Inclusive and Resilient Recovery

2. - Boasts of the largest road network in West Africa.
- Only 60,000km out of its estimated 195,000km or road network is paved.
- Federal roads are estimated to be about 35,000km, state roads 17,000km, and local
government roads taking a whopping estimated 140,000km.
- A greater percentage of these road networks are either unpaved or unpliable.
- Majority of the nation’s road network was constructed between the 80s and 90s, with a
larger portion of them currently deteriorated because of poor maintenance.
NIGERIA
ROAD STATS:

3. According to FRSC Q2 2020 Road Transport Data report published by the (Nigerian)
National Bureau of Statistics
- 2,080 road crashes, mainly attributable to the bad conditions of the roads, occurred in
Quarter 2 2020
- 5,353 recorded cases of Nigerians who got injured in the road traffic accidents and a
total of 855 were killed.
- The total number of vehicles involved in accidents in Quarter 2 2020 was 3,334.
- Newly constructed roads and maintained roads soon falls into disrepair due to the use
of low-quality materials.
NIGERIA ROAD STATS
CONT'D:

4. The establishment of the Infrastructure Corporation of
Nigeria (InfraCo), which aims to raise $36.7bn for projects and
will be driven by some of the country’s top institutions.
InfraCo’s seed capital of N1 trillion (about $2.6bn) will come
from the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Nigerian Sovereign
Investment Agency (NSIA) and the Africa Finance
Corporation (AFC), a Nigeria-based multilateral financial
institution.
AN INVESTMENT
DRIVE

5. For the 35, 000-kilometre federal roads across the country to be motorable at all times,
the sum of N400 billion is required on yearly basis for maintenance (National
Assembly)
But recent history has shown that the huge amounts of budgets expended so far on
the roads have not yielded in roads infrastructure that is resilient to disrepair for at
least 5 years
HUGE COSTS FOR MAINTENCE

6. GREEN, RESILIENT AND INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT (GRID)
The World Bank in its latest report on Green, Resilient and Inclusive
Development (GRID) attempts to sum up and capture the many
infrastructure developmental gaps by proposing and pursuing economic
recovery, poverty reduction and shared prosperity through the lens of
sustainability.
The GRID approach to infrastructural development has been tested a
better approach in some countries including Japan.
So, why not? We can adopt same approach in Nigeria!

7. Principle 1: Maximizing the positive impact of
infrastructure to achieve sustainable growth
and development
Principle 3: Integrating Environmental
Considerations in Infrastructure Investments
Principle 2: Raising Economic Efficiency in
View of Life-Cycle Cost
Principle 4: Building Resilience against Natural
Disasters and Other Risks
Principle 5: Integrating Social Considerations
in Infrastructure Investment
THE WORLD BANK ALSO DEVELOPED SIX
QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT (QII)
PRINCIPLES WHICH ARE CRITICAL TOOLS FOR
SUSTAINABLE RECOVERY AND TO
TO ACHEIVE GRID
Principle 6: Strengthening Infrastructure
Governance
The Quality Investment Infrastructure (QII) methodology of
the World Bank is a development approach that recognizes
the interconnections between people, the planet, and the
economy, and tackles the increasing risks of shocks in a more
efficient way.

8. The road to recovery from the negative track record and lacklustre
performance of huge investments in road infrastructure over the years is by a
firm commitment by the nation's leadership to develop a sustainable policy
framework which adopts QII Principles.
By so doing, we get to learn and understand that considerable focus and
attention should be given to accommodate the Green & Resilience crucial
factors throughout the project infrastructure development lifecycle – from
conception to construction to usage and even decommissioning (where
applicable).