The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has urged regulatory agencies to ensure reduction in the cost of doing business in the country. Specifically, the minister said the relevant agencies must take urgent steps to check exploitation of operators at seaports. The Minister made the call at the 2020 World Maritime Day...
The Federal Government has announced plans to commence construction of the Eastern rail line connecting Port Harcourt – Bonny to Maiduguri. Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi made the disclosure in Ibadan, shortly after inspecting the level of work on all the Stations across the Lagos-Ibadan rail corridor. According to the minister,...
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that Nigeria would proceed with the Regional Maritime Development Bank Project, once two-thirds of member-states comprising West and Central Africa, accepted the decision reached by the Maritime Organisation of West and Central Africa(MOWCA). Amaechi disclosed this while declaring open the meeting of...
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has debunked reports that an Abuja-bound train, KA4, was, Monday night, attacked by suspected bandits, between Asham and Kubwa. Managing Director,NRC, Fidet Okhiria, while describing the report as false, however, acknowledged the presence of hoodlums along the Abuja-Kaduna route who, he said, usually hurled heavy...
The federal government has constituted a committee to draw up modalities for the disbursement of the N10 billion palliative fund for road transport operators and workers. The Minister of state for transportation, Gbemi Saraki made the disclosure on Thursday when the immediate past National President and the incumbent National President of...