LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several passengers sustained injuries on Monday after a Abuja-Kaduna train was involved in an accident along the track. The incident occurred near Asham along the busy rail line connecting Abuja and Kaduna, triggering panic among passengers onboard the train. The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Kayode Opeifa, confirmed the…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Nigerian Railway Corporation has attributed the suspension of operations on some of its rail lines to insecurity, banditry and vandalism of its rail tracks. Mr John Otivere, an official of the NRC in Niger, disclosed this in Minna in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on the state…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) on Sunday issued an internal memo announcing the train fare increment earlier published exclusively by Tribune Online. This is even as some passengers have lamented over the manner of increment, wondering why NRC will jack up train fares without prior notice to train users. According to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Honourable Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo has described the Nigerian Railway Corporation as a bedrock of social economic development which has influenced many lives. Sambo disclosed this while on a working visit to the Nigerian Railway Corporation corporate headquaters in Ebute – Metta Lagos. The Minister who commended the support…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government Government is considering unbundling the Nigerian Railway Corportion to make its services more efficient and effective. The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, made this disclosure yesterday in Abuja when members of the NRC Governing Board paid him a courtesy visit. According to him, the…