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 …