PORT HARCOURT AND NON-FUNCTIONAL STREET LIGHTS: HOW DID WE GET HERE?
Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital is unique in its own way. Apart from being the hub of oil and gas in sub-Saharan Africa, the Garden City, as it is known boasts certain facilities which other major cities in Nigeria seem to be in want of. One of such facilities is the street light, mounted in every major street within and outside the city and its environs. Such major streets include Harold Wilson Drive, Churchill Road, Airport Road, Olu-Obasanjo Bye-Pass, Ikwerre Road, Aba Road and Aggrey Road. Other streets that are beneficiaries of these street lights are Stadium Road, Government House Drive, Forces Avenue, Rumuola Road and several others. In 1988, Aggrey Road, which could be best described as the centre of Old Port Harcourt Township, was rated as the most beautiful street in Nigeria by the United States-based Cable News Network (CNN). It is believed that a street in Port Harcourt would not have been rated as such if not for the presence of functional street lights the illumin
