The Minister of Transportation, Saidu Alkali, had called for collaboration between the private sector and the Federal Government to establish transport databank applications in Nigeria.
This call was made during his keynote address at the one-day stakeholders’ engagement forum on “Smart National Transport Databank (NTD),” organised by the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT) in Zaria, on Tuesday.
The forum focused on “The Strategic Importance of a Smart National Transport Databank in Socio-Economic Development of Nigeria.”
Alkali explained that the event aims to help establish a better system for collecting and managing transport data in the country.
“NITT has decided to invite all the relevant stakeholders to come together to brainstorm on the strategic importance of developing a viable and sustainable smart transport data bank for the socio-economic development of Nigeria.
“Similarly, this will sensitize stakeholders on the need and importance of transport data for national planning, improved policy formulation, and synergy in the transport sector, as well as facilitating economic growth and development.
“I am very optimistic that this event will come out with resolutions that will impact positively on the development of the Nigerian transportation sector in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu’s administration,” he said.
The minister mentioned that the National Council on Transportation approved the decision to create the National Transport Databank (NTD) during a meeting in Makurdi, Benue, in 2012.
