Govt Committed To Digitising Nigeria’s Transport Sector — Minister

Minister of Transportation, Senator Said Ahmed Alkali, has reaffirmed national government’s committedness to transforming Nigeria’s transport and logistics assemblage done digitisation, strategical investments, and stakeholder collaboration.

Alkali, who spoke connected Tuesday astatine the Nigerian Transport and Logistics Leadership Summit successful Abuja, said transport and logistics were the “lifeblood of Nigeria’s economy” and emphasised the sector’s relation successful driving nationalist development.

The programme, with the taxable “Building Sustainable Transport and Logistics Infrastructure successful Nigeria: Current Trends and Future Insights,” brought unneurotic policymakers, manufacture leaders, and stakeholders to illustration a sustainable way for the aboriginal of transport successful Nigeria.

Alkali further noted that nether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, cardinal priorities see the translation of the obstruction sector, modernisation of pipeline infrastructure, and the adoption of future-focused technologies.

He says, “Tangible advancement is already being recorded crossed aggregate fronts — rail, road, pipeline proscription — and assorted innovations aimed astatine delivering businesslike work successful enactment with planetary champion practices.”

He stressed that authorities efforts unsocial would not suffice and called connected backstage assemblage investors and different stakeholders to actively enactment the sector’s transformation.

Earlier, Dr. Bayero Salih Farah, manager wide of the Nigerian Institute for Transport Technology (NITT), highlighted the captious request for Nigeria to align with planetary trends, including sustainability, integer transformation, and the deployment of emerging technologies similar artificial quality and blockchain.

According to him, “The situation earlier america is clear. We indispensable align with planetary champion practices portion processing home-grown solutions to our infrastructural, regulatory, and operational gaps.”

Farah added that addressing clime change, accelerated urbanisation, and the increasing request for mobility and commercialized is indispensable for Nigeria’s semipermanent competitiveness successful the planetary logistics landscape.