After a technical review of its light rail (blue line) project, the Lagos State Government yesterday disclosed that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a French multinational, Alstom SA to complete the rail project. The state government, thus, said the passenger operation of the first phase (Marina to Mile 2) of the […]
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Sunday flagged off the expansion of the Orile Tanker Terminal truck, as part of solutions to the Apapa gridlock. Ambode assured that work would be accelerated on the 1000-capacity terminal at Orile-Iganmu area of the state. Ambode, while on an inspection tour of the Apapa-Iganmu axis said the […]
About 10,000 Nigerians were employed during the construction of the Abuja Light Rail Project, which was recently commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari, while 100,000 more will be directly or indirectly employed when the project begins full operation. The Chief Resident Engineer for the Abuja Light Rail Project, Mr. Anthony Agbakoba, disclosed this on Thursday while […]
The Federal Government has set up a team for the proposed unbundling of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) that would see the entity being broken into three or four groups, Daily Trust can report. The planned unbundling of the NRC is for efficiency and better service delivery as the country invests in railway modernization. Our […]
The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi has directed that the Apapa station be demolished and expanded in order to accommodate the activities at the Apapa seaport. He said this, yesterday, after the inspection of the project in Lagos. Amaechi said the idea is to pull down the existing structures, expand the station towards the […]
The Abuja Light Rail gulped a total of $831 million, and was first commissioned in 2007 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The newly launched light railway in Nigeria's capital is the first light rail network in west Africa, and the first phase is now operational. The Abuja Light Rail has begun operation, after undergoing 11 […]
Nigeria's Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday said at least $2billion would be required to revive the Lagos-Kano Rail Line as part of efforts to boost local and international trade along the Northern and Southern zones. Osinbajo, who spoke at the opening of the inaugural edition of the Lagos-Kano Economic and Investment Summit held […]
The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has disclosed that barring any technical hitches, it will next month deploy the two new speed locomotives it acquired for the Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge train service It noted that once it deploys the new locomotives, timing of its services would be strict, adding that it will obey its schedules strictly […]
The Nigeria Railways Corporation (NRC) said two new speed locomotives will be deployed on the Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge by next month. NRC Liaison Officer, Pascal Nnorli, disclosed to journalists in Abuja that locomotive, which arrived Abuja last month are built to travel up to 150km per hour. With the new locomotives, mass transportation of goods […]
The Federal Ministry of Transportation, has disclosed plans to connect all seaports, airports and inland container depots by rail. Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Sabiu Zakari, said; “The vision is for a farmer in Sokoto to be able to send his goods from his farms by road to the nearest inland container depot, where it […]
