NRC receives 5 coaches as Abuja-Kaduna shuttle begins in May

           The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) on Thursday took delivery of five coaches in its effort to modernise railway operations in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the corporation received the coaches at the ENL Terminal, Apapa Port, Lagos.

                                                                                     

They comprise three standard coaches with capacity for 80 passengers, one executive coach with capacity for 56, and one Parcel/ Guard Van coach. train1 Mr Kabir Zayyana, NRC’s Acting Director of Mechanical, Electrical, Signal and Communication, told NAN in Lagos that the contract for the coaches was awarded by the Federal Government in 2015. Zayyana said the coaches would be deployed by May on its standard gauge operation between Kaduna and Abuja.

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They comprise three standard coaches with capacity for 80 passengers, one executive coach with capacity for 56, and one Parcel/ Guard Van coach.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/see-new/

They comprise three standard coaches with capacity for 80 passengers, one executive coach with capacity for 56, and one Parcel/ Guard Van coach.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/see-new/

They comprise three standard coaches with capacity for 80 passengers, one executive coach with capacity for 56, and one Parcel/ Guard Van coach.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/see-new/

Nigeria: NNPC Will be Split Into 30 Independent Companies - Oil Minister Kachikwu

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) will be split into 30 independent companies in the forthcoming weeks, Minister of State for Petroleum Products, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has stated. According to him, the restructuring is designed to help tackle corruption at the state oil company. Mismanagement and graft at NNPC has hampered an industry that provides around 70 percent of national income in Africa's biggest crude producer, and plans to break up the company are part of efforts to dismantle opaque structures that enabled theft.

           For the first time, we are unbundling the subset of the NNPC to 30 independent companies with their own managing directors," Group Managing Director of NNPC, Kachikwu said. Titles like group executive directors are going to disappear and in their place you are going to have chief executive officers, and they are going to take responsibilities for their titles," he said. Kachikwu also said members of OPEC plan to meet other oil producers in Russia around March 20 for new talks on an oil output freez

READ: Gov Ambode's Comments on Bloody Hausa-Yoruba Clash in Mile 12

             Lagos state Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has reacted to the deadly Hausa-Yoruba clash that erupted within the communities in Ketu-Mile 12 area of the state.Today, I have just been informed that some miscreants and criminal elements have exploited that dispute to cause a breakdown of law and order within the area. These types of clashes do occur from time to time in a multi-ethnic city like Lagos and the government has responded appropriately. In order to further restore calm, I have ordered that Mile 12 Market be temporarily closed and urged traders, community leaders and other stakeholders to eschew violence; be calm and law abiding. Furthermore, I have also ordered a temporary restriction of movement in the following streets; Oniyanri Street, Maidan Street, Agiliti 1 and Agiliti 2,” he said.

         The public is hereby assured that we will not shy away from our responsibilities to protect lives and property and we will deal decisively with those criminal elements who fan the embers of ethnic strive. Let me assure Lagosians that the state is home to every tribe and ethnic group and nobody should give this disturbance any ethnic coloration whatsoever. Every law abiding citizens should go about their normal businesses,” Governor Ambode said.