China and Algeria have joined forces in a significant partnership to construct an expansive 6,000 kilometers of railway lines within the North African nation, a move lauded by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune as pivotal in advancing his country’s socio-economic progress. Earlier this month, Tebboune said in a regular interview with […]
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With multiple railways hit by flooding in the past weeks, it becomes more and more visible that extreme rainfall can have a devastating impact on railway infrastructure. What are rail infrastructure managers doing to prepare for this type of more extreme weather? Weather extremes are intensifying with global warming warming, […]
The Nigerian Army said troops of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) on Operation Hakorin Damisa IV have arrested 17 criminal suspects in connection with murder, kidnapping and armed robbery, recovering arms, ammunition and illicit drugs. Captain Oya James, Media Information Officer, OPSH, in a statement, said the troops arrested five murder […]
The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has put forth a recommendation to halt the €140 million renovation project for the Kostenets-Septemvri railway in Bulgaria, while also advocating for the reclamation of the €38 million that has already been disbursed. This action is prompted by irregularities detected during the procurement process and […]
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has expressed disappointment over the failure of Abuja Rail Mass Transit project.The metro rail, which was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari on July 12, 2018, and opened for passengers the following week, has since been abandoned, paving the way for vandals to […]
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 […]
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 […]