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 »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 »LAGOS-IBADAN RAIL PROJECT FLAGGED-OFF: TO BE COMPLETED DEC 2018 – OSINBAJO
Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said that the Federal Government was committed to delivering a fast and efficient rail service system between Lagos and Ibadan within a projected time frame of December 2018. Osinbajo, who spoke at the Ground Breaking Ceremony of the Segment II Lagos-Ibadan Rail Project with Extension to Lagos […]
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 »BAN ON OKADA, KEKE WILL AFFECT NIGERIA’S ECONOMY – AMAECHI
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that motorcycles and tricycles should not be banned nationwide because doing so would affect the nation’s economy negatively. Amaechi said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the celebration of the national day of Amalgamated Commercial Tricycle and Motorcycle Owners, Repairers and Riders Association of Nigeria. The minister advised state governments not to […]
Continue reading »FG RELEASES N72B COUNTERPART FUND TO BUILD LAGOS-IBADAN RAIL LINE
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday disclosed that the Federal Government has released its counterpart fund for the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan Modernisation Railway Project. The minister said this at the second Presidential Business Forum which was presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo in Abuja.
Continue reading »GENERAL ELECTRIC TO TAKE OVER NIGERIA RAILWAY CORPORATION NEXT YEAR
The Federal Government said yesterday that American company, General Electric (GE) would take over the management of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) under a concession plan between January and March 2017. Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, who made this known yesterday in Abuja while speaking at the first International Transportation Conference, said that the 18-month window period before the […]
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.
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