The Truck Transit Parks [TTP] project planned by the Nigeria Shippers’ Council [NSC] is estimated to cost N4.8 billion. Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi said at NSC’s breakfast meeting in Lagos recently that the Truck Transit Parks are to be located in eight places around the country.
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The Rivers state Police Command has confirmed the attack on a commercial bus owned by God is Good Motors by gunmen at Emohua Local government area of the state.
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The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has unveiled plans by the Federal Government to build a better network of roads and bridges across the country.
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There was a time when truck driver Kevin Kimmel knew little about the scourge of human trafficking. That all changed when he pulled into a gas station in New Kent County, Virginia, on the morning of January 6, 2015. Kimmel recalls a quiet scene with few other people around. Yet a “kind of unusual” family recreational vehicle parked nearby caught […]
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The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, said on Tuesday that the Federal Government would reintroduce the use of weigh bridges on the nation’s highways. Fashola, who made the disclosure while answering questions from newsmen at the Made in Nigeria Summit 2016 at the Eko Atlantic City in Lagos, said that the weigh bridges were not working […]
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As part of efforts to boost revenue, the federal government has been advised to concession major highways and railway lines in the country to both local and foreign private sector investors. Analysts at FSDH Merchant Bank Limited gave the advice in their latest monthly economic report. They also stressed the need for the federal government to involve the private sector […]
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Apparently to address the problem of road transport infrastructure in the country, the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Lagos chapter, has formally inaugurated a new body, Nigerian Institution of Highways and Transportation Engineering (NIHTE). Although, the body, which was created in 2013 as the 19th Division of the Nigerian society of Engineers, is now saddled with the responsibility of transforming […]
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