With the death on Monday, 7 March of Dr Doyin Okupe, twice a presidential spokesman, Nigeria has been deprived of a pan-Nigerian politician. Okupe, who died of cancer at 72 in a Lagos hospital, was free of the primordial tendencies that have over the years made our country underachieve, despite stupendous resources. Though he and Chief Moshood Abiola, the Social …

The new Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Dr. Kayode Opeifa, averted a looming workers strike that would have paralyzed train services on the five train networks across the country. The nation’s oldest corporation owns and runs train services on the two narrow gauges known as the Western and Eastern Lines, and three standard gauges namely; the Abuja-Kaduna, …

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) generated N1.70 billion from passengers in the third quarter of 2024, an increase of 13.83% from the N1.49 billion recorded in the same period last year. A report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the money was collected from the 743,205 passengers that travelled via rail system, a 25.05 per cent increase from …

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. …

In January 2021, Barrister Nyesome Wike as governor of River State publicly applauded former President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for reimbursing the state to the tune of N78 billion hitherto spent on fixing federal roads in the state. Wike’s action was, however, not spared of backlash from his party men who berated him for lauding an opposition government. That went for …

The federal government on Thursday, 19 September, took delivery of the converted Nigeria Railway Corporation’s (NRC) locomotive which runs on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and diesel. The retrofitted locomotive is a Public-Private Partnership project with De-Sadel Consortium. Minister of Transportation, Sen. Said Alkali made the disclosure during the final test run of the retrofitted locomotive from the Idu Train Terminal …

The management of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has berated those who said the police who died on its Abuja-Kaduna passenger train was a vicitm of inadequate attention by qualified medical personnel on its train. In a statement yesterday, the NRC management expressed its “heartfelt condolences” to the bereaved family of the late Police Inspector Nambut Selbol. “The NRC management …

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) generated N1.07 billion as revenue from passengers in Q4 of 2023, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), this is contained in the NBS Rail Transportation Data for Q4 2023 released in Abuja on Monday. The report showed that the figure decreased by 7.51 per cent …

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has said train operations from Port Harcourt to Aba will soon begin operations. The move followed the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Eastern-Narrow-Gauge Railway. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, Freeborn Okhoria, disclosed this when he led the management team on an inspection of the project site in Port Harcourt on …

It have been tales of lamentation and cries for help by occupants, residents of shops, stalls, buildings at Bodija plank market area, Ibadan, demolished last week by the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC). The NRC had embarked on the demolition citing security threats including that the location had become a criminal hideout, a haven for commercial sex operations. According to the …