By Tariq Ibn Ziyad Tariq ibn Ziyad, having landed in Spain and sent the Umayyad navy back to Tangier, told his troops: “Where will you flee? Behind you is the sea and before you, the enemy.” They had no option but to go forth and conquer the Iberian Peninsula. Such […]
A railway policy professional, Mr Olawale Rasheed has made a passionate appeal to President Bola Tinubu and the Federal Executive Council to implement urgent reform of the Nigerian Railway Corporation to solve national transport challenges and jumpstart the nation’s economy. In series of tweets on Friday evening, Mr Rasheed who […]
The African Development Bank Group has granted approval for financing structures worth $696.41 million for Burundi and Tanzania, marking the commencement of Phase II of the Joint Tanzania-Burundi-DR Congo Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) Project. The funding provided by the Bank Group will support the construction of 651 kilometers of the […]
The Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, Fidet Okhiria, has said that the corporation will begin the Port-Harcourt-Aba, Lagos to Kano train services for both passengers and freight in the first quarter of 2024. Mr Okhiria made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in […]
Prior to the grounding of the rail transport system in some major cities of the country including Maiduguri, the railway was the cheapest and largest means of conveying goods and services in addition to human movements. The Maiduguri railway terminus used to witness a beehive of activities with top businessmen […]
Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno, has described the removal of some railway coaches from Maiduguri, the state capital, to other states as “suspicious and unfair”. Zulum spoke on Tuesday when he visited the Maiduguri Railway Terminus. On Saturday, the Borno police command said it arrested six persons over an attempt […]
The People’s Republic of China has committed 85 per cent of funds to refinance the completion of the Abuja-Kano and Port-Harcourt-Maiduguri railway projects. According to a presidential spokesperson, Stanley Nwocha, President Xi Jinping made this pledge on Wednesday while responding to a request by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who Vice […]
Transmashholding, TMH, Russia’s leading manufacturer of railway rolling stock, says Africa is in dire need of modern railway infrastructure to propel the continent to rapid development. The Chief Executive Officer of TMH, Mr Kiril Lipa, told newsmen in Moscow Russia, that absence of railway infrastructure in some major cities in […]
The long-running pay dispute between Germany’s main railway workers union and state rail operator Deutsche Bahn moved into arbitration on Monday, both sides confirmed. Collective bargaining talks between the EVG union and Deutsche Bahn had been held since February. Workers twice walked off the job, briefly paralysing much of the […]
Yesterday at the plenary session of the 10th Senate, Distinguished Senator Ajagunla Olubiyi Fadeyi, representing the good people of Osun State Central Senatorial District drew the attention of the Senate President, His Excellency, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio CON and distinguished senators of the hollow chamber to a matter of national […]