hernars: .

aristocats:
Nigeria Government felt that she needed to change to
left hand drive to further illustrate her independence
from the British.

echibuzor: As much as I have tried to think about the motive behind the change, I am coming up short..... But maybe its because of the fact that maybe we import tokunbo cars mostly from America then and America cars are lefties so....

ayusco85: Twas for safety reasons. Left handed cars are more safe than right handed

aristocats: Nigeria Government felt that she needed to change to left hand drive to further illustrate her independence from the British.

Mr Aboki: Because there is nothing that is RIGHT in Nigeria?!

nagoma: In the early seventies ( 1972 I think) when the change occurred uniformity was being encouraged world wide. More countries were driving on the right hand side of the road except countries with British colonial background. Nigeria was ( and is) surrounded by countries with French colonial history who had always been driving on the right. ( Benin republic, Cameroon, Niger and chad) their drivers use our Nigerian ports and our drivers delivered goods to those countries with much confusion. It made much sense to make that change. America and Britain are simply proud and feel important so they refuse to change from their imperial systems. It is the same with metric system; only in America and UK do you hear of awkward measurements in miles, pounds ,stones , ounces and inches.

Dawdy: Because, Most Nigerians, Expecially Leaders, dont do the right things?

nagoma: In the early seventies ( 1972 I think) when the change occurred uniformity was being encouraged world wide. More countries were driving on the right hand side of the road except countries with British colonial background. Nigeria was ( and is) surrounded by countries with French colonial history who had always been driving on the right. ( Benin republic, Cameroon, Niger and chad) their drivers use our Nigerian ports and our drivers delivered goods to those countries with much confusion. It made much sense to make that change. America and Britain are simply proud and feel important so they refuse to change from their imperial systems. It is the same with metric system; only in America and UK do you hear of awkward measurements in miles, pounds ,stones , ounces and inches.

firetrap: we drive on the right side of the road so it only makes sense that the stirring whee be placed on the left

naptu2:

+100

There are two reasons for the change.

1) Most countries permit left hand drive (LHD) cars which drive on the right side of the road (RHT). This was the case in all of Nigeria's neighbours. So, if you wanted to drive from Lagos to Lome, you had to learn to drive on the opposite side of the road. Changing to LHD simply made things easier and meant that we drove on the same side of the road as most other countries.

2) The only reason why we used RHD cars and drove on the left was because we were colonised by the United Kingdom. Well, most African countries wanted to show that they could make their own decisions and did not have to conform with whatever their former colonial masters did. Nigeria was no exception. So the government decided to go with the system that's used by most countries in the world, rather than the system that's used by its former colonial master.

ayusco85: Twas for safety reasons. Left handed cars are more safe than right handed

nedu2000: I feel it makes sense for it to be left-handed,especially considering d fact dat majority of nigerians are right-handed!!so u can hold the steering with your left hand,and do all sorts of other things with your right hand

hernars: Safety! Drivers on opposite lanes could be nearer to each other and it is no news dat we have d highest number of illiterate drivers in da world...

firetrap: we drive on the right side of the road so it only makes sense that the stirring whee be placed on the left

leunamme93: good point. Our roads are already ported so too.

BLOOD OF GOD

firetrap: we drive on the right side of the road so it only makes sense that the stirring whee be placed on the left

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BLOOD OF GOD

naptu2:

+100

There are two reasons for the change.

1) Most countries permit left hand drive (LHD) cars which drive on the right side of the road (RHT). This was the case in all of Nigeria's neighbours. So, if you wanted to drive from Lagos to Lome, you had to learn to drive on the opposite side of the road. Changing to LHD simply made things easier and meant that we drove on the same side of the road as most other countries.

2) The only reason why we used RHD cars and drove on the left was because we were colonised by the United Kingdom. Well, most African countries wanted to show that they could make their own decisions and did not have to conform with whatever their former colonial masters did. Nigeria was no exception. So the government decided to go with the system that's used by most countries in the world, rather than the system that's used by its former colonial master.

HNosegbe: OP, let's wait for our resident encyclopaedia (Naptu) to answer the question.