The Federal Government Friday said it will save over N24billion as it commences maintenance dredging of River Niger from Ajaokuta to Onitsha.
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MINISTRY TO LAUNCH DREDGING OF 152 KM AJAOKUTA-ONITSHA WATERWAYS
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, is set to launch the dredging of the 152 km Ajaokuta-Onitsha waterways on April 28, in Kogi.
Continue reading »FG RAISES PANEL ON NEW LAGOS-IBADAN RAIL CONSTRUCTION
The Federal Government has set up a steering committee to monitor the construction of the new Lagos-Ibadan rail line and ensure the delivery of quality job by the contractor. The Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation, Mr. Fidet Okhria, who disclosed this on Tuesday in a telephone interview with our correspondent, also said the construction work had commenced on the standard […]
Continue reading »BUHARI HAILS COMPLETION, REOPENING OF ABUJA AIRPORT
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commended the efforts of the ministries of transport, power, works and housing, the security agencies, Kaduna State government, the contractor, Julius Berger, and others, on the successful completion of work on the runway and re-opening of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, 24 hours ahead of the time limit. The President, in a statement signed by […]
Continue reading »HOUSE PASSES NATIONAL TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL
The House of Representatives has passed a bill for an Act to establish the National Transport Commission (NTC) as an independent multimodal transport sector regulator. The bill, which is now up for concurrence in the Senate, would transmute the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) into NTC and transfer the staff, employees, ownership of land, assets, properties, rights, debts, liabilities, obligations, functions […]
Continue reading »REPS THREATEN TRANSPORTATION MINISTRY WITH ZERO ALLOCATION
The House of Representatives on Tuesday said the Ministry of Transportation would get zero allocation in the 2017 budget if it failed to provide clear explanation and figures on how it spent the funds appropriated to it in the 2016 fiscal year. According to the lawmakers, the ministry has not spent the over N243bn that it has so far received […]
Continue reading »FED GOVT TO BORROW $6.1BN TO COMPLETE ALL RAIL PROJECTS BY 2019
The Federal Government has concluded plans to borrow $6.1 billion from Chinese Exim Bank to complete all rail projects in the country by 2019. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, who disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, in a statement issued by Yetunde Sonaike, the Ministry’s Director of Public Relations, said that the Federal Government had targeted the construction of […]
Continue reading »CRIME: FED GOVT TO COMPILE BIOMETRIC DATA OF OKADA RIDERS
The Federal Government will soon embark on biometric data capturing of all commercial motorcycle and tricycle operators in the country to check crimes perpetrated with the use of tricycles and motorcycles. The capturing would be done in collaboration with the Amalgamated Commercial Tricycle and Motorcycle Owners, Repairers and Riders Association of Nigeria. The National President of ACOMORAN, Alhaji Shehu Babangida, […]
Continue reading »NATIONAL COUNCIL ON WORKS URGES ASSEMBLY TO PASS ROAD SECTOR REFORM BILL
The National Council on Works has urged the National Assembly to fast track the passage of the National Road Sector Reform Bill, meant to improve current funding of roads project in Nigeria through Public Private Partnership. This was part of resolutions arrived at by the council during its 22nd meeting presided over by the minister of Power, Works and Housing, […]
Continue reading »APTCON MOVES TO BOOST TRANSPORT SECTOR
Private transport company owners under the aegis of Association of Private Transport Companies of Nigeria (APTCON) have called on stakeholders in the sector to tap into every potential the sector has to offer for its growth and development. Speaking recently, the convener of the association, Dr Henrietta Onwuegbuzie, expressed the readiness of members to energise the sector with trillions in […]
Continue reading »FG, CRCC SIGN MOU ON WARRI-ABUJA RAILWAY PROJECT
The Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with China Railway Construction Corporation, CRCC, for the construction of Warri-Ajaokuta-Itakpe-Abuja rail line. While Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, signed for Nigeria, the Vice President of CRCC, Mr Chen Xiao Xing, signed for his company on Friday night.
Continue reading »DRY PORTS: AMAECHI PLEDGES TO REMOVE BOTTLENECKS FOR CONCESSIONAIRES
The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, at the weekend promised federal government’s assistance to the private sector investors through the removal of bottlenecks for rapid development of dry ports in the country. He made the disclosure in his office in Abuja, during a meeting with the concessionaires of the dry ports in the six geopolitical zones who came to […]
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