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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The Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, said on Friday that the Federal Government would in February, 2017 consider approval for the concessioning of the Eastern and Western rail lines. Amaechi stated this to State House correspondents after Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo inaugurated a steering committee for the concessioning of the Eastern and Western rail lines at the Presidential Villa.
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The Federal Government on Friday constituted a 20-member steering committee on the concessioning of the Eastern and Western lines of the Nigeria Railways. The move is said to be aimed at spurring a transformation of the railway infrastructure in the country. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo inaugurated the committee headed by the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, at the Presidential Villa, […]
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The All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State has called on the Federal Government to urgently dualise Calabar-Itu highway, as the project had been captured in the 2016 budget. A statement addressed to the Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, and signed by the state Chairman of the party, Dr. Amadu Atai, on Sunday, said the road has become impassable […]
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About seven years after its commencement, the first phase of the Abuja-Kaduna Standards Rail Gauge was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari, with a pledge to ensuring that the country has a working rail system. Towards this end, his administration would pursue a 25-Year Strategic Railway Master Plan which is aimed at rehabilitating the existing 3,505km narrow gauge rail line as […]
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The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, said Monday that the Abuja-Kaduna rail project would be inaugurated on July 26 at Idu, Abuja. Amaechi made this known in an interview with journalists in Abuja.
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The Federal Government few days ago signed an agreement with the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) for the construction of the Lagos-Calabar coastal railway line at $11.117billion Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi said the first segment of the rail line, which comprises Calabar, Uyo, Aba and Port-Harcourt will be ready within two years.
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The Federal Government has inaugurated a technical committee for the establishment of the Kaduna Dry Port with a view to decongesting the country’s seaports. In March this year, the Federal Executive Council approved the establishment of Inland Container Depots (ICD) in the country and explained that the concept would be run on a public-private partnership, using the build, own, operate […]
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All is now set for the grand commissioning of the $1.04Billion Abuja-Kaduna High-speed rail a couple of weeks from now. But for the need to accommodate the President’s tight schedule and the on-going Islamic Fasting Season, the rail would have been commissioned much earlier than the new rescheduled date.
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Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has assured that the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari will ensure the sustenance of the Abuja-Kaduna rail project upon completion. “Is it sustainable? The answer is yes because it is on its own. If you say whether it will be subsidized, it will be. We are working out the details of how much […]
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Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi last week in Lagos read the riot Act to the various freight forwarding associations to meet with the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) and resolve the differences that they have with the regulatory agency. He gave the freight forwarding and Customs brokers associations two weeks to resolve their differences, […]
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