From The Press: Eko Rail’s Trains Begin Journey to Lagos
On September 30, 2011,
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The first of hundreds of Toronto subway cars that will furnish a new surface rail line in Lagos, Nigeria, has left Canada for the last time, and is now en route to Africa’s largest city. A Nigerian company, Eko Rail, has agreed to purchase 255 of the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) best-equipped subway cars for [...]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Sunday solicited support from all Lagos residents to enable his administration continue the work of transformation which it began in the last dispensation. Governor Fashola, who spoke at the Tafawa Balewa Square venue of this year’s Ramadan Lectures of the Ansar – Ud – Deen Society of Nigeria, [...]
The Lagos State Government has added five new ambulances to its fleet of Mobile Intensive Care Units (MICU), increasing it to 27. Commissioner for Health Jide Idris said this would ensure rapid response to emergencies. He said: “These ambulances, just like the other MICUs, have improved capacity over the old mobile clinics. They have enhanced [...]
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Tuesday stated that plans for the inner city roads in the state is on course, stating that the big challenge is however funding to continue to keep the contractors at work and expand the scope of work that they are doing. Governor Fashola spoke with State House [...]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Sunday solicited support from all Lagos residents to enable his administration continue the work of transformation which it began in the last dispensation. Governor Fashola, who spoke at the Tafawa Balewa Square venue of this year’s Ramadan Lectures of the Ansar – Ud – Deen Society of Nigeria, [...]
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Monday signed three bills into law, stating that they represent the ethos of the forward looking nature of the present administration and its commitment to building strong institutions. Speaking at the signing ceremony of the law to Amend the State Emergency Management Agency Law, Provide rules on [...]
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT,) Bala Muhammed, on Thursday led senior management staff of the ministry to understudy Lagos State success story in traffic management, environmental beautification, Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and public-private partnership (PPP) policies. Muhammed’s counterpart in Transport, Idris Umar, is also in Lagos on a tour of federal transport parastatals geared [...]
Crucial to the dream of having an all-year good road is the revitalisation of the nation’s rail network, said the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola. Mr. Fashola, while playing host, on Thursday, to the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, added that “there can be no good roads in the country until plans to build [...]
Governor Babatunde Fashola on Wednesday launched an electronic device to check whether vehicles have valid documents without engaging in manual stop and check of vehicles’ papers. The device, Auto Inspector, is the first of its kind in Nigeria and will help to reduce traffic gridlock on Lagos’ highways occasioned by police stop and check of [...]
The Lagos State government, yesterday, declared as illegal and unconstitutional, quit notices given to some house owners and residents in the Ikosi GRA and its environs by agents of the Federal Government over allegation that their property fall within the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway expansion project site. Bi-Courtney Highway Services Limited, the contractor handling the expressway, issued [...]