1 TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: THE JOURNEY SO FAR AND THE WAY FORWARD An Inaugural Lecture By Prof Patience Chinyelu Onokala PROTOCOL The Vice-Chancellor, Professor B. C. Ozumba Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration, Nsukka Campus) Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration, Enugu Campus) Principal Officers of the University Erudite Professors Deans of Faculties/Directors of Institutes Heads of Departments Distinguished Past Inaugural Lecturers Priests and other Distinguished Guests Distinguished Academic Colleagues/Administrators Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen Lions and Lionesses PREAMBLE I am very grateful to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor B. C. Ozumba, for giving me this opportunity to deliver the 97th Inaugural Lecture of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The first Inaugural Lecture in this University was delivered in 1976 but it was not as regular as it is today. Therefore, I am also grateful to other past vice-chancellors, Professor C. O. Nebo and Professor Bartho Okolo and for the incumbent, Professor B.C. Ozumba, for resuscitating and sustaining the culture of Inaugural Lectures in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and for making them more regular. It is highly commendable that they have not only sustained these lectures but have also made Inaugural Lectures in the University of Nigeria a regular monthly academic event.