Minister of Transportation, Senator Ahmed Alkali, has pledged to undertake the modernisation, rehabilitation, planning and development of the rail transport sector with efficient security. Alkali, who resumed duty yesterday in Abuja, said he would support the primary purpose of government and maximise the potential in the recent constitution alterations that […]
Day: August 23, 2023
The National Union of Railway Workers has disclosed that the payment of the long-awaited 95 per cent salary increase will soon commence. Speaking with our correspondent in Abuja over the weekend, the Secretary-General of the National Union of Railway Workers, Segun Esan, explained that while the approval had been received, […]
At least 17 labourers working on a railway bridge being built across a ravine in India’s eastern Mizoram state were killed when it collapsed on Wednesday, officials said, with others reported missing. Video footage posted by Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga showed a metal frame that had toppled off towering columns […]
By Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot Since the dawn of history, military strategy has been dominated by the inexorable calculus of logistics — distance, time, transport capacity, and consumption. For thousands of years, every army that waged war relied upon the muscles of its men and animals to carry it across […]
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested 13 suspected railway vandals with large quantities of long rails and sleepers worth 800 million naira. According to the statement signed by the Corps spokesman, Babawale Afolabi, the suspects were arrested by the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad. The suspects were […]