President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday gave assurances that the Ibadan-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano railway project would be completed to the satisfaction of Nigeria and West Africa at large. Tinubu said this during a visit to the headquarters of China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC)…
By Opeyemi Abdulsalam Following the completion of its repair, freight services have been restored on the old Lagos-Kano narrow gauge railroad. The Minister of Transportation, Saidu Alkali, via a statement on his official X (formerly Twitter) account said Freight services…
The Federal Government announced on Wednesday that it has completed the 63-kilometre Port Harcourt-Aba railway project. The Port Harcourt-Aba project is part of the larger Port Harcourt-Maiduguri railroad project initiated by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Managing Director of…
By Seun Ibiyemi The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, has given assurance that the Federal Government will implement far-reaching, all-round security strategies to ensure the safety of passengers, personnel and assets along the Abuja-Kaduna rail corridor and other rail…
The Federal Government spent $548.67million (N246.11billion using the official exchange rate of N448.55 to a dollar by the Central Bank of Nigeria) to service railway-related debts between 2016 and 2022, according to Nigeria’s external debt service payments reports by the…
The Federal Government has restated its determination to develop, upgrade and modernise Nigeria’s railway transport infrastructure. The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the 2nd International Railway Conference and Exhibition with the theme “Powering…
…Okays N4.96bn for printing of NECO materials …Pledges to resolve ASUU strike By Uthman Salami The Federal government has approved the funds for the procurement of rolling stocks, operations as well as maintenance of Nigerian railway service equipment. This approval…
By Blessing wika, Abuja The federal government has unveiled the Warri-Itakpe standards gauge railway 30 years after it started constructing the rail line designed to transport iron ore from Itakpe to Ajaokuta and Aladja Steel Rolling Mills in Delta. The…
