Operatives of the Man O’ War Railway Command have apprehended a Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) staff member, Gift Eseeli, for allegedly stealing ‘several lengths of 50mm armoured signal cables’along the Warri-Itakpe Train Service corridor. In a statement by the NRC Acting Spokesman, Callistus Unyimadu, the stolen items were recovered intact and handed over to the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) for …

Several railway projects worth over $21.3 billion (about N16 trillion) across the country have been stalled due to lack of funding, according to Daily Trust investigation. The development is threatening the Federal Government’s railway modernisation programme designed to connect all states of the federation. The projects include the Ibadan-Kano Standard Gauge Railway ($5.3 billion); $11.17bn Lagos-Calabar coastal railway project; $3.02 …