Agbor Station News Today

Nothing less than two staff of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), at Agbor train station, Delta State, were reportedly kidnapped by gunmen throwing the community into panic.

No fewer than two staff of the Nigerian Railway Corporation at Agbor train station have been reportedly abducted by gunmen. It was learnt that the incident happened on Friday at a little distance from the Owa-Alero ancestral residence of Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa. The victims were identified as Peter Osazuwa, a Level 10 officer in Operations and Commercial Department and Level Nine Officer from Kwara State, and Giwa Mohammed in the Stores and Procurement Department of the Warri-Itakpe ...

A source in NRC who does not want to be named informed that the victims were staffers of the Warri-Itakpe train service in Agbor, while the incident took place some few minutes distance from the Owa-Alero ancestral residence of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.

Copyright AFP 2017-2020. All rights reserved. Social media posts are circulating in Nigeria with pictures purporting to show dilapidation on the railway line linking Nigeria’s southern oil-rich city of Port Harcourt to Maiduguri, in the country’s northeastern region. This claim is misleading; one of the four images shows a different railway line that has since been rebuilt, while the other three pictures were taken earlier this year in Nigeria’s southeastern state of Abia after hoodlu...