{"id":28722,"date":"2020-08-15T15:29:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T15:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=28722"},"modified":"2020-08-15T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T15:29:11","slug":"amaechi-lai-mohammed-inspect-lagos-ibadan-rail-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechi-lai-mohammed-inspect-lagos-ibadan-rail-project","title":{"rendered":"Amaechi, Lai Mohammed inspect Lagos-Ibadan rail project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Ministers of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed are on inspection tour of the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail projects.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the tracks for the 156km modern rail project has been completed.<\/p>\n<p>Before departing for Ibadan in a modern train on the rail line, the ministers inspected the Ebute Metta station buildings and yards under construction.<\/p>\n<p>The team also inspected the new Apapa dockyard station and bulk terminal at the Apapa port in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>NAN reports that the Government is linking the Apapa and Tincan ports with the rail project in order to solve the challenge of gridlock caused by the parking of articulated vehicles on the roads and bridges in Apapa.<\/p>\n<p>The Lagos-Ibadan rail project is the first double-track standard gauge modern railway in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The project, the second leg of the Lagos-Kano Railway Modernisation Project is being constructed by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) an affiliate of China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Ministers of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed are on inspection tour of the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail projects. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the tracks for the 156km modern rail project has been completed. Before departing for Ibadan in a modern train on the rail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[250,50],"class_list":["post-28722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-amaechi","tag-lai-mohammed"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amaechi, Lai Mohammed inspect Lagos-Ibadan rail project - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Ministers of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed are on inspection tour of the Lagos-Ibadan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechi-lai-mohammed-inspect-lagos-ibadan-rail-project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amaechi, Lai Mohammed inspect Lagos-Ibadan rail project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Ministers of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed are on inspection tour of the Lagos-Ibadan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechi-lai-mohammed-inspect-lagos-ibadan-rail-project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-15T15:29:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Amaechi-Umana-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"550\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"322\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechi-lai-mohammed-inspect-lagos-ibadan-rail-project#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechi-lai-mohammed-inspect-lagos-ibadan-rail-project\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Amaechi, Lai Mohammed inspect Lagos-Ibadan rail project\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-15T15:29:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechi-lai-mohammed-inspect-lagos-ibadan-rail-project\"},\"wordCount\":177,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechi-lai-mohammed-inspect-lagos-ibadan-rail-project#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Amaechi-Umana-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Amaechi\",\"Lai Mohammed\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechi-lai-mohammed-inspect-lagos-ibadan-rail-project#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechi-lai-mohammed-inspect-lagos-ibadan-rail-project\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechi-lai-mohammed-inspect-lagos-ibadan-rail-project\",\"name\":\"Amaechi, Lai Mohammed inspect Lagos-Ibadan rail project - 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