According to the FERMA chairman, the majority of Nigerian roads have reached their expiration dates.

The majority of the nation’s roadways have reached their expiration dates, according to Nurudeen Rafindadi, the managing director and chief executive officer of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA).

The CEO stated that some of the country’s highways were intended to last 15 to 20 years but are already more than 50 years old while speaking at an event on Saturday in Kaduna. “The majority of the country’s roadways have expired.

We are currently maintaining our outdated highways that were only intended to be designed to survive for a maximum of 25 years and were instead built more than 50 years ago. Planning is necessary to come up with a strategy for keeping our roads in good condition.

Despite the obvious advantages of highway construction for Nigeria’s socioeconomic and political prosperity and its enormous capital expenditure, the sector nevertheless faces a number of managerial and operational difficulties.