Tag: Lagos-Ibadan

Lagos-Ibadan rail officially connected to Apapa Port CCECC

Aminu Imam

The Chinese construction company, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, (CCECC), has announced that the Lagos-Ibadan railway line has been officially connected to the Apapa Port Complex in Lagos, the nation’s commercial capital. The company, which disclosed this in a tweet yesterday, disclosed that, The Apapa Port spur line of Lagos-Ibadan Railway starts from the Mobolaji Johnson Station, Ebute Metta and extends southward to Apapa Port, with a total length of 8.72km. It added that the linking of the rail to the port, wbich it said took nearly three years of…

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Lagos-Ibadan rail to commence operations in September – NRC

Ishaku Yohanna

Considerable reprieve will come the way of commuters in the South West as skeletal operations are expected to commence on the Lagos-Ibadan Standard Guage Rail line from the middle of September with 16 trips daily. The Managing Director of Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr. Fidet Okhiria, disclosed this on Saturday, August 15, 2020 in Ibadan, Oyo State during an inspection tour of the project by the Ministers of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi and Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai  Mohammed. Okhiria said that since the track laying had been completed between…

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