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A Lagos State Bus Rapid Transit driver, Osibanjo Oluwaseun, who collided with a moving train at Ikeja and allegedly killed six people was, on Tuesday, arraigned before an Ikeja High Court. The defendant, who was arraigned before Justice Oyindamola Ogala, is facing 16 counts bordering on involuntary manslaughter and previous harm, preferred against him by […]
An unspecified number of people have been injured after a passenger train crushed a Lagos State Government staff bus at PWD area of the state. The incident happened around past 7am on Thursday. The spokesperson for the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Taofiq Adebayo, said rescue operation was ongoing. “The accident recorded many casualties as […]
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) announced in Lagos on Tuesday that rail services would be suspended from Saturday, Feb. 25 to Monday, Feb. 27. NRC’s spokesman, Mr Mahmood Yakubu, stated that the suspension was to enable Nigerians to exercise their franchise at the presidential and National Assembly elections of Feb. 25. Train services to be […]
The Managing Director, Lagos State Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Mr Abimbola Akinajo, said the State Government had commenced the test running of the 13 km Lagos Blue Line Rail Service train. Akinajo disclosed this at the commencement of the test running in Lagos on Monday from Marina to Mile 2. She said that the […]
The Federal Government has approved the resumption of services at the Abuja-Kaduna train station. The Board and Management of Nigerian Railway Corporation revealed in a memo made available to newsmen on Monday, January 30th, that services will commence at the station starting from Tuesday, January 31st. Recall that services was halted at the Abuja-Kaduna train days ago […]
Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Monday, announced the delivery of another train sets for the BLUE LINE Rail. Sanwo-Olu in a social media post said, that “the train has been cleared at the ports and have been moved to the National Theatre station where they have been lifted onto the elevated rail […]
After an eight-month suspension, the Abuja-Kaduna train operation services finally resumed operations on Monday. The train services were suspended on March 28, 2022, by the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) after terrorists bombed the moving train, killed some passengers and abducted at least 60 passengers. Prior to its resumption, Mu’azu Sambo, Minister of Transportation, had informed […]
