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Is Amaechi Minister of Lagos-Ibadan rail or Transportation?

For more than eight months and exactly since the beginning of the second tenure of President Muahammadu Buhari on May 29, 2019 which returned him as the Minister of Transportation, Chief Rotimi Amaechi had been so much preoccupied with issues…

Minister blames ‘urban nature of Lagos’ for endless delivery of Lagos-Ibadan rail

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has fashioned out another strange reason for the inability of all his previous delivery dates for Lagos-Ibadan rail project to have been failing. This time, he absolved the contractor which he had been blaming…

Amaechi not too sure of Lagos-Ibadan rail delivery by CCECC in December

Contrary to some media reports that the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi is quite hopeful that contractors handling the Lagos -Ibadan Rail project will meet December deadline, he has expressed disappointment with the slow pace of work being done, saying…

RoW, gas pipelines hobbling December 2018 delivery of Lagos-Ibadan rail

Though the $1.5bn standard gauge railway line between Lagos and Ibadan project, whose groundbreaking ceremony was done last year by the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, then as acting president, is meant to be fully completed in December this year, indications have…