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President Bola Tinubu, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria (CIOTA) have called for an integrated transportation system to support Nigeria’s ambition of building a $1tn economy.

The stakeholders said effective connections between roads, railways, seaports, airports and inland waterways would reduce logistics costs, ease congestion, improve safety and facilitate the movement of people and goods.

They also emphasised the need for increased private-sector investment, professional transport administration, technology adoption and the formalisation of road and inland waterway operations to maximise the sector’s economic potential.

Tinubu, represented by the Supervising Minister and Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Transportation, Olufunsho Adebiyi, spoke at the opening of CIOTA’s eighth National Transport Conference in Lagos on Tuesday.

The President described transportation as more than the movement of people and goods, noting that it provides the vital connections between farms and markets, factories and consumers, seaports and inland communities, as well as businesses and economic opportunities.

He said Nigeria needed to move beyond developing road, rail and maritime infrastructure in isolation to building an interconnected transportation network that incorporates inland waterways, seaports, airports, logistics hubs, mass transit systems, intelligent transport systems and digital platforms.

According to him, the Federal Government has prioritised transportation infrastructure under its Renewed Hope Agenda, recognising the sector as a major driver of economic growth, national integration, employment generation and investment.

Sanwo-Olu, represented by his Special Adviser on Transportation, Sola Giwa, said Nigeria’s transportation problems stemmed not necessarily from inadequate infrastructure but from poor connections between existing transport systems.

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He illustrated the challenge by noting that containers cleared at seaports within a day could spend another week on the road before reaching their destinations, while rail passengers continued to face difficulties connecting to their final destinations.

“Nigeria does not have a shortage of roads, rails, ports, airports or waterways. It has a shortage of connections between them,” the governor said.

He observed that although the various modes of transportation were making progress individually, insufficient coordination among them continued to undermine the efficiency of the entire system.

Sanwo-Olu described transport integration as the central issue that the conference needed to address, stressing that a coordinated network would improve mobility, reduce delays and strengthen economic productivity.

The governor also highlighted the transportation challenges facing Lagos, a megacity with a population of well over 20 million people and one of the smallest landmasses among Nigeria’s states.

He said the state could not resolve its persistent traffic congestion by continually expanding its road network, arguing instead for a system that moves more people in fewer vehicles through better connections among rail, road and water transportation.

“The only way to give each resident more mobility is to move more people in fewer vehicles, across more modes, with an easy passage from one to the next. That is not ideology. It is arithmetic,” he said.

He stressed that seamless transfers between transport modes would be critical to improving commuter experiences, reducing pressure on roads and making the transportation system more efficient.

The stakeholders maintained that an integrated transport network, supported by technology, professional expertise and private-sector participation, would be essential to reducing the cost of doing business and positioning transportation as a catalyst for Nigeria’s $1tn economic ambition.

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