Revival of rail lines is one of the several promises of President Muhammadu Buhari pre-2015 general elections. And across the regions have been some flashes of improvement on rail tracks that had been abandoned for decades. Most symbolic has been the completion and operation of the 168-kilometre Abuja-Kaduna rail line, […]
By Johnson Mwawasi Kilangi Solar panels, sun energy and electricity generation in the desert, Africa. ingehogenbijl/Shutterstock.comFrom political platforms in Kenya in East Africa to Nigeria in West Africa, leaders jostling to form the next governments are promising to drive more infrastructure investment through public-private partnerships (PPPs). For over a decade […]
Webuild and joint-venture partner Shibh Al Jazira Contracting Company (Sajco) have signed a €1.4bn contract to design and build 57km of a high-speed railway serving the futuristic commercial and residential region of Neom on Saudi Arabia’s northern Red Sea coast. The joint venture will build most of the “Connector”, a […]
Heads of the railways of Iran and Iraq have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on taking executive measures for completing the Shalamcheh-Basra railway, the portal of Iran’s Transport and Urban Development Ministry reported on Sunday. The MOU was signed at the place of the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, on […]
The joint infrastructure project is expected to connect Gulf and Arab countries via a network of railways that would also be connected to India via shipping lanes from ports in the region Photograph:(Others) The proposal for the infrastructure could be discussed on Sunday as the national security advisers of the countries meet […]
On 22 February 2023, the Federal Council issued its message on the revision of the Railways Act (RTA) with a view to implementing the technical pillar of the EU’s 4th railway package (4th FP (VT)). We consider the draft revision to be a success, as it makes possible the next […]
The 273 km, $2.2bn railway line, running east from Kampala, Uganda, to Malaba, just across the border in Kenya, should have been built by now. In 2015, a Chinese state-owned firm, the China Harbour Engineering Company, won the contract to build the crucial transport link. But after eight years with no […]
The railways’ ambitious New Delhi station redevelopment project has been derailed once again with the bidding process getting cancelled. This is the third time when the bidding for this project has been cancelled. The railways has also decided to discharge the bidding process for the Ahmedabad station redevelopment project. The […]
1. My attention and the entire Board’s have been drawn to a publication in some National dailies of the purported signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between a US firm, “Atlanta Global Resources Inc.” and the NDDC, whose Board I chair, for the “construction of a mega rail project […]
Lauretta Onochie, the chairperson of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) board, has distanced herself from a $15billion memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the management of the commission and a United States-based firm, Atlanta Global Resources Inc. The multi-billion deal which was purportedly signed on Tuesday, is meant for the […]