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…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Briefing Journalists after the FEC meeting on Wednesday, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi explained that the N2.8bilion contract would facilitate sitting of some of the Deep Blue Projects in the coastal towns. Amaechi said: “Another one that was approved is the licensing of Oracle E Business Suite in the sum of N955.5…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST NEWSRANGERS)-The free train service from Iju in Lagos to Abeokuta which was declared by the Federal Government on February 11 after the section was test-run only operated for two weeks before it was suspended. The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) suspended the service amidst disappointment by passengers. However it was learnt that the…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention for the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, has described the action of President Muhammadu Buhari to honour the winner of the annulled election, late Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, as curious and one sided. Tofa said this in a statement on…