The Nigerian Railway Corporation has expanded its train operations on the Abuja-Kaduna route, increasing the number of services from four to six on weekdays, specifically from Monday to Friday. A statement signed by the Deputy Director of Public Relations, Yakub Mohmood, on Wednesday, disclosed the update. This expansion aims to meet the growing demand for train services on the route. …

The Southwest Zone of the National Union of Road Transport Union (NURTW) has elected Alhaji Musliu Akinsaya (popularly called MC Oluomo) as the union’s National President. Delegates from the zones’ four states of  Lagos, Ogun, Ondo and Ekiti participated in the election, which took place during its Quadrennial Delegate Conference at its Zonal Secretariat in Osogbo, the Osun State capital. …

The Lagos State Ministry of Transportation has introduced a new system to accredit interstate parks and digitise passenger manifests, aimed at enhancing safety, reliability, and efficiency in interstate travel across the state. The state Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, announced this at a news conference on Friday in Lagos. According to Osiyemi, the initiative is an ambitious programme designed to …

The Presidency has allayed fears that the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) initiative of President Bola Tinubu’s government could be dangerous. Earlier on Thursday, local media source, Free Malaysia Today, quoted the Malaysia’s transport minister, Anthony Loke, to have announced several measures aimed at phasing out the use of CNG for vehicles and CNG-powered vehicles, citing safety concerns. According to Loke, …

Property owners along the Lagos-Calabar Highway have rejected the Federal Government’s compensation offer, describing it as insufficient compared to the actual value of their properties. In an exclusive interview with The PUNCH, a retired banker, Emeka Mewu, said the compensation he was offered was a merger sum compared to the value of his property. He said, “My property was valued …

The Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGi) announced on Wednesday that it has converted over 100,000 vehicles to CNG or bi-fuel configurations, resulting in more than 60 per cent savings in fuel costs. PCNGI Project Director/CEO, Michael Oluwagbemi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. The statement, titled “Status Update on the Presidential CNG Initiative”, noted that over $200 million …

The Federal Government says Hitech Africa Construction Company will complete the dilapidated section of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway using concrete technology. A statement by the Director of Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Works, Mohammed Ahmed, on Tuesday, said President Bola Tinubu approved the contract to be awarded to Hitech, following the revocation of the contract issued to Julius Berger on …

The Federal Ministry of Works has directed Julius Berger, the contractor handling Section One rehabilitation of the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Dual Carriageway, to evacuate the project site. This followed a 14-day final termination notice issued to the company on Monday, dismissing any possibility of further negotiations. The ministry said the termination was based on non-compliance with the reviewed cost, scope, and terms, …

The Lagos State government has announced a 15-month traffic diversion at Mile 2 for the construction of the new transport interchange terminal. In a statement on Sunday, The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, said that the diversion would integrate rail, bus, water and non–motorised transportation. He said the 15-month traffic diversion for the construction would begin from 11 …

The Federal Government, through its National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has stated that in 2023, Nigerians paid N40.14bn in road taxes to state governments. This is according to an analysis of data from the Internally Generated Revenue report recently published by the NBS. The figure collected was a 63.36 per cent increase from the N24.57 billion collected in 2022. This …