IJPSD

ISSN: 2360-784X

 International Journal of Political Science and Development
 

International Journal of Political Science and Development

Vol. 7(4), pp. 101-108, June, 2019. 

DOI: 10.14662/IJPSD2019.065

ISSN: 2360-784X

Review

The Challenges of Infrastructural Development in Nigeria: An Assessment of The Pains And The Gains

Umar Kari¹, Ogbu Collins² and Ereke Ernest³

¹Department of Sociology, University of Abuja.

E-mail:  umarkari@yahoo.com

²Department of Political Science, University of Abuja.

Corresponding author’s E-mail:ogbu2013@gmail.com

³Department of Political Science, University of Abuja

Accepted 7 June 2019

The development of infrastructure world over is a fundamental precursor to economic growth and development. Most developing countries with infrastructural deficit can hardly create a reliable path to national development as the flow of foreign direct investment and advancement of critical and non-critical sectors of the economy are near-impossible. Nigeria is caught-up in this regrettable state. Over the years, the development of key infrastructure has not been prioritized by successive regimes.  The budgeting process has often placed recurrent expenditures far and above the building of infrastructures and hence, the country suffers scornful and deplorable state of infrastructure presence. This paper is an effort geared towards the examination of the pains and gains of infrastructural development in Nigeria. Relying heavily on secondary sources of data, the paper utilizes the descriptive method and concludes that state of infrastructure in Nigeria is a function of perpetual neglect by state actors. It thus recommends that Government needs to steer economic diversification & structural changes as an alternative means of creating revenue to defray the cost of building infrastructures. The state can also dare a synergy between Public and Private sector in other to ease the speedy availability of infrastructures in the country.

Keywords: infrastructural development in Nigeria, Physical Infrastructure, Social Infrastructure, economic growth and development

Cite this article as: Umar, K., Ogbu, C., Ereke, E (2019). The Challenges of Infrastructural Development in Nigeria: An Assessment of The Pains And The Gains. Int. J. Polit. Sci. Develop. 7(4) 101-108