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level and state level. Every country and business do carry out project and is a way of developing the country and creating jobs for the people. It is also a sources of income for the company that is carring out the project. All these years we have seen that one of the major problem in Nigeria is failed project, the government invest huge sum of money into a project like the failed power project during Olusegun Obasanjo when he was president. Project managers and stakeholders in the built environment have said that the major reason why many government contracts in the country remain uncompleted is because of unnecessary interference in policies. They argued that the abandonment of projects and negligence of duty by contractors were mainly caused by poor or non-implementation of government policies. The industry experts spoke at the inauguration of the Nigerian chapter of the African Project and Programme Management Association in Abuja on Friday. The APPMA is an affiliate of the American Academy of Project Management. According to the experts, Nigeria has certified professionals with unquestionable integrity who are ever ready to deliver on projects at stipulated periods. But these professionals are often confronted with the challenge of policy interference by the government, a development that usually hampers the smooth delivery of projects as at when due. When the government of late General Murtala Mohammed in 1975 proposed that a new federal capital be created as the then capital, Lagos was getting congested, it was expected that the new site, Abuja, which was planned for a population of 3.1m people will be conducive for living and not have the problems that plagued Lagos, namely congested housing and an inefficient transport system. However, it has not exactly turned out to be so 22 years after the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida moved the capital to Abuja, the population has exploded to 1.8m people in the city center and 6.2m in the satellite towns. While the city is still far from congested compared to Lagos, there is an urgent need for a better transport system for moving the mass of people that commute within the federal capital daily. The city does not have the intra-city rail system that was in the original plan – it is just being constructed now. Thus, it depends on buses to move round the city. The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has banned small buses and has licensed five companies to operate mass transit buses within the city. However, there are only a little above 200 mass transit buses to serve the huge amount of people in need of transport, and the buses do not even ply every route. As a result, long queues at bus stops are commonplace and those who are able to afford the exorbitant taxi fares opt for that.![CONGESTION][1]![THE FAILED LAW MAKERS][2] [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14166805232330529.jpg [2]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14166805779310869.jpg