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Badagry Deep Seaport: FG Receives Full Business Case Compliance Certificate From ICRC

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi
The federal government through the Ministry of Transportation yesterday received the Full Business Case Compliance Certificate on the Badagry Deep Seaport and the Modular Floating Dockyard from the Infrastructure ConcessionRead More

PDP Demands Amaechi’s Sack Over Lootings In NPA, NDDC

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday demanded the immediate sack, investigation and prosecution of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, as well as the suspended Managing Director of the NigerianRead More

How $1.5bn Channel Management, INTELS Contracts Pitted Amaechi Against Bala-Usman

Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala-Usman
Last week’s suspension of Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala-Usman, at the request of the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, was the culmination ofRead More

Buhari Government Set To Use Probe Of Nigerian Ports Authority To Implicate Agency’s Suspended MD, Usman

Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Managing Director, Mrs Hadiza Bala-Usman
The auditing of the finances of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) between 2016 and 2020 as suggested by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and approved by President Muhammadu BuhariRead More

Buhari Suspends Hadiza Bala Usman As Nigerian Ports Authority Managing Director

Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala-Usman
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday suspended Hadiza Bala Usman as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). No reason was given for the suspension of Usman who wasRead More

Warri-Itakpe Rail Line Freight Services To Create More Jobs

Warri-Itakpe Rail Line
The Federal Government at the weekend stated that the freight services on the Warri-Itakpe standards gauge railway line would create more jobs for Nigerians and promote the ease of doingRead More

Buhari Launches $3.2bn Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Railway Project

Train
FG to provide 15% funding; loans to account for 85% President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday launched the $3.2 billion rehabilitation and reconstruction of Port Harcourt- Maiduguri eastern narrow gauge railway project,Read More

FG, China Finalise Financing Negotiations For Katsina-Maradi Rail Line, Others

Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed
World Bank seeks more transparent debt management The Federal Government is about concluding negotiations with China Exim Bank on the financing of some rail projects in Nigeria, including the Katsina-Kano-MaradiRead More

Buhari Launches Eastern Rail Corridor March 9

Minister of Transportation, Hon. Chibuike Amaechi
Redirects line to Abakaliki, Awka The Minister of Transportation, Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, has said President Muhammadu Buhari will perform the groundbreaking ceremony for the Eastern rail corridor in the country’sRead More

FG Mulls NIN Enrolment Suspension Over COVID-19 Risks

National Identification Number (NIN)
Threatens to stop Lagos-Ibadan, Abuja-Kaduna train services Signs MoU on $1.959bn Kano-Maradi rail project The federal government has said that it may suspend the ongoing enrolment for National Identification NumberRead More