Editing Transport in Nigeria (section)

===International highways===

Nigeria's strategic location and size results in four routes of the [[Trans-African Highway network]] using its national road system:
* The [[Trans-Sahara Highway]] to [[Algeria]] is almost complete but border security issues may hamper its use in the short term.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trans-Sahara highway may soon widen African trade - CSMonitor.com|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/1980/1224/122441.html|website=www.csmonitor.com|access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref>
* The [[Trans-Sahelian Highway]] to [[Dakar]] is substantially complete.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=la-caravane-bamako-dakar|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2210-7975_hrd-5510-0003|access-date=2021-06-25|website=Human Rights Documents online|doi=10.1163/2210-7975_hrd-5510-0003|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* The [[Trans–West African Coastal Highway]] starts in [[Nigeria]], connecting it westwards to [[Benin]], [[Togo]], [[Ghana]] and [[Ivory Coast]] with feeder highways to landlocked [[Burkina Faso]] and [[Mali]]. When construction in [[Liberia]] and [[Sierra Leone]] is finished, the highway will continue seven other [[Economic Community of West African States]] (ECOWAS) nations further west.<ref name="NEPAD">[https://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol20no3/203-highways.html Itai Madamombe (2006): "NEPAD promotes better transport networks".] ''Africa Renewal'', Vol.20 No 3 (October 2006), page 14.</ref>
*The [[Lagos-Mombasa Highway]] has been awaited for many decades to kick-start trade across the continent. It does provide improved highway links to neighbouring [[Cameroon]], but its continuation across [[DR Congo]] to [[East Africa]] is lacking, as are highways from Cameroon to [[Central Africa]] and [[Southern Africa]], which could boost trade within the continent.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-07-11|title=PPE is working|url=http://www.afdb.org/portal/page|access-date=2021-06-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711060123/http://www.afdb.org/portal/page|archive-date=2007-07-11}}</ref>