TGIF. Pajawiri weekend dash to Toronto. I decide to go by train. I was surprised by how affordable the business class ticket was as I scanned the rail website. Shior, Madam says, business class ko, Dangote class ni. You just must do Naija big man sha and throw away money. Oga, you can go be... Read More

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Buhari, Goodluck Jonathan, opinion, Pius Adesanmi, trains, Western progress versus Nigerian backwardness

April 6, 2017

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“I know all of the folks” | Trump has big plans for New York

by Itunuoluwa Adebo President Trump said he was considering fast tracking the introduction of his $1 trillion infrastructure bill, but pointedly refused to say whether he planned to include two major New York City transportation projects that his budget for next year would defund. Trump, speaking in a wide-ranging interview in the Oval Office on... Read More

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infrastructure, new york, subways, trains, trump

August 14, 2014

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Take a ride through Nigeria’s new railway revolution (YNaija Long Read)

by Adedayo Ademuwagun Dele Oyebanji is a young man who lives in a neighbourhood near the Mushin train station in Lagos. He gets to see trains come and go everyday, but he has never been in a train before. Like Dele, many people in Lagos are not accustomed to getting around by train. Most people... Read More

adedayo ademuwagun, Agbado, Apapa, lagos, Nigerian Railway Corporation, roail-road, trains

June 28, 2011

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Your Turn: A ride on a Nigerian train

by Efosa Aiyevbomwan Every day my people dey inside bus Forty-nine sitting, ninety-nine standing Them go pack themselves in like sardine Them dey faint, them dey wake like cock -Fela Anikulapo-Kuti The Nigerian railway system exemplifies the pathetic state of the nation’s infrastructure and transportation system. I boarded a train from Iddo, Ebute Metta to... Read More

chinese contractors, Lagos government, Obasanjo, railway system, squalor, trains

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