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The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt- Maiduguri Eastern Narrow Gauge .



The cost of the project was put at $ 3 . 02 bn.
The decision was taken at the weekly meeting of the council presided over by the President , Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd . ).
Minister of Transportation , Rotimi Amaechi , disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting at the Presidential Villa , Abuja .

Amaechi also told reporters that the council approved the construction of a deep seaport at Bonny and a railway industrial park in Port Harcourt, both in Rivers State at the cost of $ 703 . 1 m .

He, however , said the two projects would be at no cost to the Federal Government , saying they will be funded through Public - Private Partnership arrangement.

He said the industrial park would gulp $ 241 . 2 m while the Bonny Deep Seaport will gulp $ 461 . 9 m .

The minister explained , “The Federal Executive Council has approved the award of contracts for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Port Harcourt- Maiduguri eastern narrow gauge railway , with new branch lines and trans -shipment facilities .

“ The council also approved the construction of a new deep seaport in Bonny , under PPP and the construction of a railway industrial park in Port Harcourt.

“ The railway line will be at the cost of $ 3 , 020 , 279 , 549 . The industrial park , which is under PPP, at no cost to Federal Government , will cost $ 241 , 154 , 389 . 31 . The Bonny deep seaport will cost $ 461 , 924 , 369 , at no cost to the Federal Government .

“The Port Harcourt to Maiduguri narrow gauge railway will have new branch lines : from Port Harcourt to Bonny and from Port Harcourt to Owerri are new lines .

“ There is another connecting narrow gauge to standard gauge at Kafanchan. There is a branch line from Gombe or before Maiduguri to Damaturu and Gashau . ”

Still on PPP, the Minister of Interior , Rauf Aregbesola , said the council approved the establishment of the Nigeria Correctional Service Shoe , Garment , and Leather Processing Factories in Aba , Abia State as well as Janguza, Kano State.

“ The benefit , beside the employment of Nigerians, is the opportunity for training of the inmates of our correctional facilities in Janguza, Kano State and Aba in Abia State.

“ The contract for full business skills compliance certificate is given to Messrs LG Investment Limited , a Nigerian company which is partnering with a Chinese company , Full Technology Incorporated from Beijing , China, ” he said .

Source: https://punchng.com/fg-okays-3-02bn-for-reconstruction-of-port-harcourt-maiduguri-rail-line/

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Abuja to port Harcourt is good, Abuja to Lagos is okay, Abuja to the east is fine cause Abuja is the Centre of Nigeria but Maiduguri?

I don't get the rationale behind it.

Lol, so that boko haram can now come to the south through train, idiots dey waste money like fools, I'm not into all these apc and pdp matters but is this not bad enough? what will it profit you to build a railway from Ph to a war torn state with over 3 billion naira and you can't settle ASUU so we can resume school

Edit: Chaiii na even 3b dollars, I guess this was what Saudi Arabia did that made them great today since they like comparing us with the Saudis

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But ASUU still dey strike with NASU now

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Seems colleges no go resume this year,cos FG no even dey look their side

Amaechi is working....

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The amount of money these people are quoting sha

....Wike don put dem for panick mode. Lol.

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Why are all the rails linked to the North though?

What is so important from maiduguri that is needed in port Harcourt?

Repentant Bokoharam ?

Very soon we see boko Haram in Port Harcourt Fulanis government are so strategic

The plan is to export bokoboys
But they will drop off at Lagos Ibadan.

Ameachi is very hardworking and Buhari is giving him needed

They keep pouring money on obsolete trains just so they can embezzle funds

WHERE THE MONEY GO COME FROM NA, TH3 LOANS THEM GO COLLECT OUR GRAND CHILDREN NO GO PAY FINISH

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This government main ambitions and worries are railways, yet, the lagos-Ibadan Railway project they started many years ago is yet to be completed, now, they want to spend over a Trillion Naira on a project that will never be completed



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All these "wonderful" projects. I really don't know what they think it'll achieve, but let's watch them

Una must complain sha, some hypocrites above me are asking why maiduguri, are people in maiduguri not humans or they don't deserve rail?
U want Lagos, port Harcourt, itakpe etc to have rail but not maiduguri, why?

later they will say there is no money #endASUUstrike

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As for me and my family, we had long embraced saying the truth. And the real truth in this matter is that, buhari has shown more commitment, talking less and doing more in repositioning this country to attain greatness in no distant time.

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