Transport sector in transition: concessioning has been chosen as the way forward for the run-down rail transport system. And Virgin Nigeria has settled in well as the country's prime air carrier. Bola Olowo reports.(Nigeria)

From: African Review of Business and Technology | Date: November 1, 2005| Author: Olowo, Bola | Copyright information

DR ABIYE SEKIBO, Nigeria's Minister of Transportation was understandably worried as he stepped into the rail transport realm on the Makurdi-Otukpo route of the Nigeria Railway Corp. He said he was appalled at the level of neglect and dilapidation of the infrastructure--"the rail lines that are hanging on one line." Dr Sekibo may have been worried by the infrastructure itself, but there is so much else to be worried about in the operation of the Nigerian railway system--take the per...

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