May 24

• Nigeria: NRC Shops for Private Investors to Drive Rail Transportation

  Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) is shopping for investors under a Public-Private Partnership initiative to drive railway operations in the country. Managing Director, NRC, Engr.... Read more »

• Nigeria: Appreciating Road and Transport Revolution in Abia [opinion]

  WHAT is truly lacking in many parts of the country today and has continued to inhibit development is lack of access roads and adequate transportation system. Read more »

May 22

• Nigeria: Dana Plane Crash Inquest - Pathologist Cross-Examination Fixed for July 3

  The coroner's inquest into the June 3, 2012 Dana plane crash on Tuesday fixed July 3 for further cross-examination of a Consultant Pathologist and Chief Medical Examiner of Lagos... Read more »

• West Africa: Insecurity On the High Seas Troubles Ecowas Nations

  If there is one thing the managers of Nigeria's Maritime Security would want the world to believe, it is the fact that they have been up to their charge in combating acts of... Read more »

• Nigeria: Eight Die, Eight Injured in Anambra Auto Crash

  No fewer than eight persons were feared dead, yesterday, in an auto crash involving a Mitsubishi commercial bus and a tipper lorry at the Ideani end of... Read more »

May 21

• Nigeria: Nama Staff Resume Duty - Official

  The staff of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) who were on a one-day strike on Monday have resumed full operation. Read more »

• Nigeria: Passengers Stranded at MMIA as Aviation Workers Embark On Strike

  Scores of air passengers were on Monday stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) as unions at the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) embarked on an... Read more »

• Nigeria: Sure-P to Nigerians - Our Roads Are No Longer Death Traps

  The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, Sure P has assured Nigerians of smooth driving through the nation's roads as funds are being provided for road rehabilitations. Read more »

• Nigeria: Customs Intercept U.S.$2.7 Million From Five Suspects At Murtala Mohammed Airport

  The Murtala Muhammad Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 2.7 million dollars (or N432 million) from five suspected money launderers while... Read more »

May 20

• Nigeria: Union Dares NEMA, Says Airspace Will Be Shut Down

  Workers of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) under aviation unions on Sunday insisted that there was no going back on their planned protest slated for Monday, May 20. Read more »

• Nigeria: Uduaghan's Revolution in Transport Restores Sanity [opinion]

  AS a resident in Delta State, one development that has impressed me greatly is transport. The administration of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has no doubt given transportation uncanny... Read more »

• Nigeria: Why Morning Flights Are Delayed at Lagos Airport

  Space constraints on the apron of the General Aviation Terminal, GAT, of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos may have been responsible for the delay in the early morning flights... Read more »

• Nigeria: NAMA Workers Cancel Planned Closure of Airspace

  The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) staff has suspended the industrial action slated to start on Monday to press home their demand for additional welfare package. Read more »

• Nigeria: Lorry Crushes FRSC Official in Imo

  A female official (names withheld) of Imo State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, was, at the weekend, crushed by a tipper lorry, just as Governor Rochas Okorocha... Read more »

• Nigeria: Looming Fuel Scarcity - Transport Operators Plead With Tanker Drivers

  The national leadership of the Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners , NARTO, has appealed to Petrol Tankers Drivers, PTD, branch of the National Union of Petroleum and... Read more »

• Nigeria: No Management Contract With Rivers to Operate Aircraft - Caverton

  Caverton Helicopters has told the House of Representative Committee on Aviation, and its counterpart on Justice that they had no management contract with Rivers State government to... Read more »

• Nigeria: AD Decries Tricycle Ban in Lagos

  A chieftain of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in Lagos, Chief Kola Ajayi, on Sunday decried the banning of commercial tricycles on major highways in Lagos. Read more »

May 18

• Nigeria: Akwa Ibom Orders Closure of Illegal Motor-Parks

  The Akwa Ibom Government has directed operators of commercial vehicles and tricycles to relocate to government- owned motor-parks across Uyo so as to check criminal activities. Read more »

• Nigeria: Lagos Employs 70 Women Truck Drivers

  The Lagos State Government on Friday said it had just employed 70 women as truck drivers, as part of efforts to empower women in the state. Read more »

May 17

• Nigeria: Commuter Bus Crashes Into Shop in P-Harcourt

  AN intra-city commercial bus burst into a roadside shop in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Wednesday night, leaving a passenger bleeding profusely with a ruptured skull and others... Read more »

• Nigeria: Revoke Licences of Drunk Drivers - Oni

  THE Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and other traffic management organizations have been urged to put in place a legislation that will ensure that licences of drivers driving... Read more »

• Nigeria: Govt Officials Welcome Probe of Private Jets

  Top officials of Rivers State Government have welcomed the call on Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCCA, to produce licences and documentations of all private jets in the country... Read more »

May 16

• Nigeria: Another South East Road Fails Standard Test

  MEMBERS of the House of Representatives on a nationwide inspection tour of federal roads, Tuesday, mandated the Federal Ministry of Works to produce the road design for Owerri-Aba... Read more »

• Nigeria: Private Jet Owners Fault FG's Move to Curb Operations

  Reactions have started trailing the move by the Federal government to check the use of private jets in Nigeria. Reacting to the government's policy on the declaration of manifest... Read more »

• Nigeria: How We Escaped Death - OAU Students

  Johnson Olawale Ikudayisi and Temitope Orebe are student leaders from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. When they set out to their home state, Ekiti to sort things out... Read more »