The five Indian crew members of an oil tanker who were kidnapped last month after heavily armed pirates stormed their vessel off Nigeria’s coast have been released, their employer said Saturday. Medallion Marine, a Mumbai-based shipping firm, said the hostages were freed in good health, but did not disclose whether a ransom had been paid, [...]
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano By Thursday 24 January commercial motorcyclists popularly known as Achaba in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano, and Okada in Southern Nigeria, would have been out of Kano streets and out of business. The order as made by Kano state acting governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje in a state broadcast on Tuesday, was inevitable following [...]
Governor of Nigeria’s Lagos state, Babatunde Raji Fashola said today that The first phase of the Lagos light rail project, covering Okokomaiko, Mile 2, Orile, Iganmu and Marina will be completed by June. Fashola made the statement while inspecting the light rail and other on-going projects in the state on Tuesday. He said that work [...]
China launched service Wednesday on the world’s longest high-speed rail route, the latest milestone in the country’s rapid and — sometimes troubled — super fast rail network. The opening of the new 2,298-kilometre (1,425-mile) line between Beijing and Guangzhou means passengers will be whisked from the capital to the southern commercial hub in just eight [...]
The Federal Government on Friday in Lagos inaugurated the Nigeria Railway Corporation’s Lagos-Kano intercity passenger train services and haulage of petroleum products. The Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, said at the event that the government was still committed to revamping the transport sector, particularly railway services, because of its importance to Nigeria’s economic development. [...]
Chief Tony Anenih, Senator Lekan Mustapha and Senator Florence Ita Giwa have been appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan into the board of Nigeria Ports Authority, with Anenih as the chairman. A Thursday night statement signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim announced the appointments, along with the board [...]
Kazeem Ugbodaga Nigeria’s Federal and Lagos State Governments have signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) for the construction of a deep sea port in the Lekki area of Lagos, in Western Nigeria. Lagos State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Shola Oworu, while signing the agreement at the State House, Ikeja on Monday said the project [...]
