The resilience and functionality of the informal transport sector of Nigeria are basic truths that cannot be doubted, which explains why over 75 percent of the population in cities of Nigeria depends on informal transportation, for both work and non-work-related activities. It is believed that nearly 50 percent of actors in this sector derive income primarily from the informal transport sector, and approximately 40 percent participate to supplement their earnings from other endeavours. in an article titled “No Condition is Permanent: Informal transport workers and labour precarity in Africa’s largest cities”, survive through parasitic dependence on the largely informal spatial regulation of public transport in Nigeria, and also exert influence in the informal transport scene. Public transportation in Nigeria had all along been in the hands and control of private entrepreneurs, who dictate largely the modus operandi of the nation’s public transport sector. These all worked together to reduce the level to which owners and owner-drivers could perform their primary roles of supplying the informal transport sector with roadworthy, well-maintained, and safe vehicles.

Source: The Guardian April 19, 2021 03:31 UTC