To achieve the transport component of the Vision 2020, and place Nigeria on the path of economic prosperity, a Professor of Transportation Geography, Department of Geography, University of Lagos, Samuel Iyiola Oni, has called for restructuring of the sector.
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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 […]
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Senator Ben Bruce, a National Assembly member has urged the Federal Government to come up with a mass transportation policy that would cushion the effect of new price of petrol. Bruce made the call while interacting with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that concern being expressed and the agitation generated by the new price of fuel was due […]
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Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Thursday said the Federal Government’s transportation policy was geared towards the growth of the industry and job creation. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that El-Rufai made the assertion when he paid a courtesy visit to the corporate office of Arik Air in Lagos.
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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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With many Bills on the development of transportation in Nigeria submitted to the National Assembly by the federal government during the last dispensation, experts and stakeholders continue to cry out for a national transport policy. Transportation in Nigeria is one of the many sectors that have not seen the needed development, advancement and growth. In fact, as a sector capable […]
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