Nigerians acknowledge improvement on roads
Sixty-nine per cent of Nigerians that travelled during the Yuletide acknowledged that the condition of states and federal highways in the country had improved.
This was contained in a recent survey by NOI-Gallup Polls conducted on January 8 in different parts of the country.
According to the findings of the poll released on Wednesday, majority of Nigerians said they found it easier travelling to different parts of the country by road during the Christmas holiday, unlike the previous year.
The survey said the respondents were asked: “Compared to previous years, how would you describe the state of Nigerian roads while travelling for the holiday?” Fifty-four per cent, according to the survey, said the state of the roads “has improved a little”, while 18 per cent claimed there was “no difference at all”.
Six per cent claimed that the roads “remain bad”, followed by 15 per cent who said the roads had “improved very much” and eight per cent who said it was “very bad and has gone worse”.
The survey read in part, “Overall, 69 per cent of respondents were of the opinion that the roads have either improved very much or improved a little, while only 14 per cent thought that the roads have remained bad or gone worse.
“Furthermore, when analysed across geo-political zones, it was revealed that the North-East (67 per cent), followed closely by the North-Central (65 per cent), South-East (53 per cent) and South-South (52 per cent) zones all had high proportion of respondents who thought that the roads had improved a little, compared to previous years.”
It added that respondents were also asked other questions to ascertain their experience during the Christmas and New Year season.
Majority (62 per cent) of respondents said they did not travel. While almost four in 10 respondents (38 per cent) said they travelled.
The opinion poll was conducted on January 8, 2013. It involved telephone interviews of a random nationwide sample; 512 randomly selected phone-owning Nigerians aged 18 years and above, representing the six geopolitical zones in the country, were interviewed.
CULLED FROM:PUNCH NEWSPAPERS
January 17, 2013 by Sodiq Oyeleke
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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