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 …

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) yesterday said it will soon begin the mass transit express passenger train service between Apapa in Lagos and Kajola in Ogun State on the standard gauge. This comes on the heels of the Federal Government’s palliative measures to cushion the effect of the petroleum subsidy removal. The NRC currently runs a 157-kilometre-long shuttle between Lagos …

… As I was saying… On that Thursday in mid May of 2023, we had to go through a complex of stairs and – incredibly – escalators! While some, frigid with fear of the new and clean escalators, opted to walk up and down the several stairs, we joined the excited crowd of ‘escalatees’ to trip up on one leg, …

Last week, I travelled to Ibadan, and returned the same way: on the coaches of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC). The trips were not only heartwarming and relieving, they welled up nostalgic memories of my earliest interactions with the operations of the NRC close to 40 years ago. Thursday, 18th May, we drove into the old Agege station (now renamed …

Ahead of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended train services in the country to enable Nigerians exercise their civic responsibilities. The temporary suspension of train services will be from Saturday 25 February to Monday 27 February, the NRC said in a statement on Wednesday. According to the statement by the corporation’s Deputy Director of …

The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has said that passenger train service on the Abuja-Kaduna would resume on Monday. There will however be only two return services. A statement on Saturday by NRC Managing Director, Mr Fidet Okhiria states the first train would depart Rigasa train station in Kaduna State to Abuja by 8 am, while from Abuja, the first train …