The Minister of State for Transportation, Sen. Gbemisola Saraki, says the Federal Government is unbundling and commercialising the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) to optimise its operations and advance private sector participation. Saraki spoke at the Nigeria International Partnership Forum in Paris. She said the unbundling would drive competition in the industry, enhance service delivery for […]
The Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki has described Nigerian ports as the most expensive in the West African sub- region occasioned by duplicity of functions by operators in the ports. Sen. Saraki said this yesterday when she received the leadership of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) in Abuja, who […]
‘Ile Arugbo is a piece of bare land that holds symbolic value of what my father stood for — humanitarianism, and that doesn’t start nor end with a building’ Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki, the Minister of State, Transport, has said. Gbemisola Saraki in a statement Friday night, speaking on the demolition of her family property the […]
Minister of State for Transportation, Sen. Gbemisola Saraki, has tasked government agencies to take Internally Generated Revenue, (IGR) seriously as it is the only way they can be productive. Sen. Saraki made this known when board members of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), paid her a courtesy visit recently […]
To meet increasing demands for rail travels, the federal government has awarded contracts for the procurement of more rolling stocks to close the demand gaps for both passenger and freight services. Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki, made this disclosure during an interactive session with the joint committees of the Senate and House […]
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has tasked the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), contractors handling the Lagos -Ibadan Rail project to quickly complete the project. Amaechi at the inspecting the new Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge railway line project told the Chinese company that they had no reason to delay the project because they had all they needed for […]
Temitope Adebayo The federal government has approved the $5.3 billion Ibadan to Kano standard gauge rail project, the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi has revealed. Amaechi in a statement by his media aide, Israel Ebeleme, on Thursday, after the 3rd Maritime Stakeholders Interactive Forum held in Lagos. “We got approval to complete the $5.3 […]