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By Dirisu Yakubu – Port- Harcourt The Port-Harcourt-Maiduguri Eastern narrow gauge rail line will boost transshipment of goods in the West African sub-region and Continental Free Trade Area, CFTA, President Muhammadu Buhari stated on Tuesday. The President disclosed this at the groundbreaking ceremony of the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the 2,044km narrow gauge in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers state capital. President Buhari who Presided over the event virtually from the Presidential Vill...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Southern Kaduna People’s Union, SOKAPU, has mourned the demise of a member of its National Executive Council, NEC, Dr Silas Adamu, his wife and daughter on Monday in a motor accident along the Kaduna-Abuja expressway. A statement issued by its National Public Relations Officer, Luka Binniyat, noted that “Dr. Silas who was the President of Atyap Community Development Association (ACDA) was a man who spent most of his adult life as a unionist, fighting for the...

Decades after the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri eastern railway corridor went moribund, federal government on Tuesday revived the 2044.1km railway corridor, expected to cost $3.2bn, or around N1.2 trillion. The project is being funded 85 per cent by the China Civil Engineering and Construction Corporation (CCECC) while the Federal Government makes 15 per cent counterpart fund. President […]

Members of the Ogun State House of Assembly have elected a new Deputy Speaker, DAILY POST reports. It is Hon. Akeem Balogun, representing Ogun Waterside

Channels Television   Updated March 9, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari presides virtually over the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Port Harcourt- Maiduguri Eastern Narrow-Gauge Railway.     President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Port Harcourt–Maiduguri railway rehabilitation would reactivate economic activities along the Eastern corridor. The President spoke Tuesday at the virtual ground-breaking ceremony of three projects namely the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Port Ha...

President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday the Harcourt–Maiduguri rail line would reactivate economic activities along the eastern corridor after the |

Port Harcourt-Maiduguri: Buhari replies Wike, lists benefits of railway Published President Muhammadu Buhari says the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt–Maiduguri railway would reactivate economic activities along the Eastern corridor, which have been greatly affected by insecurity. Recall that the Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike had criticized the planned flag-off of the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri rail lines by the federal government. Governor Wike who spoke during the commissioning of the R...