TRANSPORT

  The Lagos District, Nigerian Railway Corporation, on Thursday announced the termination of the Mass Transit Train Service at Agbado Station due to the ongoing construction of a standard gauge. Mrs Khadijah Aroyewum-Adekomaiya, the District Public Relations Officer, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos. NAN...

Amid intractable traffic congestion undermining its domestic economy, the Lagos State Government Thursday disclosed that it had started working with the Federal Government to construct Light Rail (Red Line) valued at $2 billion. This is coming as the state government has promised to fund the completion of the  Blue Line,...

    *Wants Kaduna-Kano rail line constructed     The new leadership of Nigerian National Assembly has been urged to revive and accelerate the passage of the Nigerian Railway Law Reform Bill which seeks to amend the outdated 1955 law establishing and regulating the Nigerian Railway Corporation. A continental railway...

  The Federal Government has said that networking Warri with Abuja through rail line will gulp $3.9 billion (about N1.404 trillion), explaining that the figure will also involve the building of the seaport at Warri. Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who made the disclosure during the routine inspection of...

  The Federal Government has said that it was set to take delivery of the first batch of 10 coaches in June 2019, out of the 64 coaches expected from China, to reduce the congestion at the Abuja-Kaduna rail line. The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, disclosed this...

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that an investment of about $40  billion, which is about N12.24 trillion for the plan by the Federal Government of Nigerian to connect major cities with railway to become a reality. This means that the government would need about one and half size...

  The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has said that plans have been firmed up to roll out the Bus Reform Project of the state government in March with 820 high and medium capacity buses, saying that the initiative would redefine public transportation and make the state globally competitive....

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved negotiation for $15 billion loan for the completion of work on the Port Harcourt – Maiduguri rail project. This was disclosed by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Ameachi, after a closed door meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He also said that...

  The Federal Government on Monday reiterated its commitment to complete the ongoing construction of Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line latest January 2019. The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, gave this assurance at on-the-spot assessment of the progress work at Ologun Eru, Ibadan, Oyo State. Amaechi, who expressed satisfaction...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday commissioned two additional locomotives and 10 additional passenger coaches for the Abuja-Kaduna Rail service at Rigasa train station in Kaduna. The government said it procured the new vehicles to reduce the stress of passengers whose large volume currently overwhelms facilities. The president in his address...