Pavement failures in most developing countries especially Nigeria is worrisome and this is one of the challenges which the government of the day constantly have to grapple with willy-nilly. To appreciate the dangers of pavement failures before suggesting remedial measures, this research was undertaken. It focuses on pavement failure in Nigeria, using the south eastern and southern states as case study. Survey methods which involve the use of questionnaires were distributed mostly to civil engineering companies. Likert's scale was used to analyse the returned questionnaires from the respondents.
Analysis of the questionnaires from the respondents shows that quality of construction materials, poor maintenance practice and the presence of moisture on the pavement are factors that are highly responsible for pavement failures in the south eastern and southern Nigeria and these results in the high congestion and waste traffic time as agreed by respondents to be the key problems of the resultant effect of pavement failure.
Pavement failure, questionnaire, sample size, poor planning, Likert scale
