The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo has said work on Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Eastern rail line was suspended due to insecurity and vandalism of railway properties along the corridor. Sambo made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos on Saturday. He spoke while on inspection tour of the project in Port Harcourt, …
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The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), has entered into partnership with the Israeli and Japanese to commence assembling and manufacturing of environmentally-friendly, green, electric and smart automobiles by 2023. Speaking while signing the partnership agreement in Abuja, the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Michael Freeman, said the partnership was a combination of Israeli, Japanese …
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JOHOR BAHRU, 24 Aug. – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today in support of advancing research collaborations, staff development programs, and staff mobility and exchange. The MoU was signed by UTM Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Datuk Ts. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi bin Ismail and the …
Sometime in 2016 a young Nigerian woman, Damilola Olokesusi sat down to think about how to make transportation one less thing to worry about for corporate workers in Lagos. The thinking manifested in Shuttlers, a technology-driven transportation start-up that eventually launched in 2017 Since then, through its ridesharing platform, Shuttlers has been providing companies with …
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The Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners has called for the establishment of a transport development bank by the Federal Government to address the issue of rickety trucks on Nigerian roads. The Executive Secretary of NARTO, Algoa Ogbogo, in an exclusive chat with our correspondent in Lagos on Sunday, Ogbogo who is also the president …
An indigenous high-tech-powered mobility company, NAIRAXI on Monday said 10 percent of the current N6.4tn spent on fuel subsidy can go a long way to improve or support road transportation in Nigeria. The Co-Founder/Chief Executive Officer, of NAIRAXI, Kingsley Eze, said this in a statement. According to him, the need for an integrated and intermodal …
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Ford Trucks, winner of the IToY Award in Hannover with its F-MAX in 2018, returns to IAA Transportation with zero emission, technologies and innovations that will advance towards cleaner environment in production, design, and product development. A statement by Brand Manager, Coscharis Group, the franchise owner of Ford brands in Nigeria, Felix Mahan, said that …
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Five months after the Lagos State government launched 1,000 brand new cars for its taxi scheme tagged ’Lagride’, residents are yet to see the impact as rickety vehicles still dot the metropolis. The state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the official launch of Lagride on March 11, stated that the era of using rickety vehicles and …
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The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, has inaugurated 316 vehicles for the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), for effective patrol of highways across the country. Mustapha, who inaugurated the vehicles on Thursday in Abuja, said they would be used to patrol the new road infrastructure provided by the Federal …
Some commercial tricycle operators in Kaduna state on Wednesday lamented over multiple levies meted on them by several government-supported transport unions in the state. The operators made their grievances known while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna. Mr. David Akin, a commercial tricycle operator in Sabo, told NAN that unions numbering …
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