Examining China’s Intervention in Nigeria’s Transport Infrastructure

For a country with over 200 million people and severe infrastructural deficit, the reality is that Nigeria has no wherewithal to meet demand for fixing its transport alone, without external financing technical assistance. With rising constraint on public resources fiscal space, it obvious government alone cannot provide necessary address deficit in like Nigeria. Hence, importance of China’s intervention reducing deficit. This study examines nature infrastructure Nigeria, causes further identifies some Chinese projects investments their impact. employed both qualitative quantitative research methods by collecting analyzing (closed-ended) (open-ended) data. The present found huge sector. identified corruption among other as main cause deficits Some major BRI this include: Abuja Rail Mass Transit Project, Railway modernization project (Abuja Kaduna section), Modernization Project (Lagos-Ibadan Section), Airport terminal other. paper concludes there deliberate effort fix evident cooperation between Nigerian Governments. And Nigeria’s been largely impactful beneficial Nigerians. Keywords: Infrastructural Deficit, Transport Infrastructure, Sino-Nigeria Relations, Development, Investments DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/14-2-02 Publication date: January 31 st 2022