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Role Of Transportation And Communication In The Economic Development Of Nigeria
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CHAPTER ONE
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The role of
transportation and communication cannot be over emphases in the economic
development of Nigeria, because the fundamental purpose of
transportation and communication and their various needs in the form of
material facilities and service. However, transportation and
communication facilities are vital infrastructure of a modern economy
transportation system comprises of several models including road, rail,
water ways etc. and communication system includes post office, courier
service wireless, and electronic media. According to a report from
environmental news on Nigeria transportation and communication, Nigeria
transportation network was one of the best in Africa in 1990, featuring
an existence system of paved high way, rail road, airports and ports.
During the oil boom of the 1990s, however, most government funds
era-marked (assigned) for transportation were applied to the
construction of new roads and maintenance of existing facilities was
ignored. As a result the transportation system was plague with
congestion and a deteriorating infrastructure. Like many economic
activities that are intensive in infrastructure, the role of
transportation sector is an important component of the economy impacting
on development and the welfare of population. When transportation
system are efficient, they provide economic and social opportunities and
benefits that results in positive multipliers effects such as better
accessibility to market employment and additional investments, when
transportation system are deficient in terms of capacity or
reliability, they can have an economic cost such as reduced or missed
opportunities. Transportation also carries and important social and
environmental load which cannot be neglected thus, form a general stand
point, the economic impact of transportation can be direct and indirect.
The direct impact is related to accessibility change where
transportation enables to save time and costs. Indirect impact is
related to the economy multiplier, effect where the price of commodities
goods or services drop and /or their variety increases. (News watch
Nigeria social infrastructure Edo State.
On the other hand,
according to Wikipedia, transportation links together the factors of
production in a complex wed of relationship between producers and
consumers, the outcomes is commonly a more efficient division of
production by an exploitation of geographical comparative advantages as
well as the means to develop economics of scale and scope. The
productivity of space, capital and labour is thus enhanced with
efficiency of distribution and personal mobility. It is acknowledge that
economic growth is increasingly linked with transportation
developments, namely infrastructures but also managerial expertise is
crucial for logistics.
Moreover, the article published by
environmental news, on Nigeria’s transportation and communication
stresses that early modern communication took place in three modes,
spoken words manuscripts writing especially letters and prints, oral
communication was the oldest of these three and in many orays, early
modern society was still primarily on oral society. Although literacy
increased enormously during this period, most people, especially among
the lower classes, possessed limited reading and speech for preserving
and transmitting information. Furthermore, as a result of a major
expansion of one of the best domestic Tele communication system in
sub-Sahara Africa in 1990, about 11,000 telephones were put in places in
Nigeria at the end of the 1980s about one third of the were in the
capital. Also a domestics satellite system with nineteen ground
stations, along with coaxial cable and a micro wave network linked all
major urban areas most localities could received at least one of the
society-five amplitude modulation (AM) radio stations, more than a dozen
cities had frequency modulation (FM) radio stations short wave
broadcasts from six transmitters were directed at remote rural areas,
broad cast were in English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and twelve other
languages. Most urban areas also had television service.
In
1990, the country had an estimated ten million radio and ten million
televisions. However, international telecommunication were modern and
provides the high quality links to the rest of the world, in
coordination with international telecommunication Satellite Corporation
(intelsat), Atlantic Ocean and India Ocean satellite, three ground
stations made live television broadcasting, and direct telephone dialing
was possible between Nigeria was the terminus of an undersea coaxial
cable linking the West Africa countries with France and capable of
carrying nine hundred and sixty simultaneous long distance telephone
calls. (Wikipedia: Finnish Transportation Safety Agency).
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research work was designed to survey the role of transportation and communication to the economic development of Nigeria. In carrying out this researcher visited Oredo Local Government Area to carry out research about topic considered. Interviewed and questionnaire were used to collect data and these were analyzed in form of table, figure and using percentage. Therefore, from the data collected and analyzed it was observed that transportation have contributed a lot to the economic develop ... Continue reading---
