Nigerian Railway Corporation
22 Jan
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) was established by the Nigerian Railway Corporation Act, CAP N129, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 in 1955 to facilitate the operation of an effective rail system for the carriage of passengers and goods across the country. The objective of the corporation is to provide an alternative road transport…
19 Jan
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has announced the commencement of the reactivation of old narrow-gauge networks across the country.
7 Jan
A Railway policy professional, Mr. Olawale Rasheed, yesterday, urged President Bola Tinubu and the Federal Executive Council (FEC), to implement urgent reform of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) to solve national transport challenges and jumpstart the nation's economy.
5 Jan
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the extension of the Yuletide free train service till Sunday, January 7, 2024. Tinubu said this is meant to allow more Nigerians who are yet to return to their stations following the Christmas and New Year celebrations. "The free train service has been extended to the 7th of January…
29 Dec
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has lamented the vandalisation of its rail tracks, saying it has lost 100,000 clips on Lagos-Ibadan and Abuja-Kaduna train services.
3 Nov
The Nigerian Railway Corporation has failed to reach its target of 90 cargo haulage trips monthly via the $1.5 billion Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail that was launched about two months ago.
5 Oct
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has commenced investigation of suspended officials involved in ticket racketeering on the Lagos-Ibadan rail service.
8 Aug 2023
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has alerted members of the public that it has not introduced e-ticketing on the Lagos-Ibadan Train Service (LITS), while urging passengers to be wary of fraudsters.
15 Jun 2023
The state of insecurity and cash crunch challenges witnessed in the country earlier in the year, may have impacted the growth of the rail sub-sector as revenue generated from rail transport fell by 33 per cent to N768.4 million in the first quarter of 2023 (Q1’23) from N1.15 billion in Q4’22.
4 Jun 2023
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) will today recommence two additional train services on the suspended Abuja-Kaduna route.
10 May 2023
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), yesterday, said the ongoing dismantling of old tracks on its Eastern corridor is to pave way for reconstruction of a narrow gauge.
21 Apr 2023
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), arguably Nigeria’s longest surviving government business had a stronghold on the rail sub-sector of the economy holding down its development for 68 years when it became transformed in 1955 or longer, 125 years since the first tram ran on rail tracks in Lagos in 1898.