Category: Roads
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Cape Gauge The development of railways in Nigeria started from Lagos Colony to Ibadan in March 1896, by the British government. This was extended to Minna in 1911, where it met the Baro–Kano Railway Station that was built by the government of Northern Nigeria between 1907 and 1911. Following the discovery of coal at Udi,…
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Sani Dauda; Nigerian businessman who through his own private company, ASD Motors, bided for and acquired PAN which assembles the enduring motor vehicle brand in Kaduna. With Peugeot’s acquisition, Dauda’s first priority was to re-shape the company’s vision and re-orientate the staff to achieve greater efficiency. In this regard, the company invests in technology and…
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Rasaki Salawu; Pioneer Director of operations of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC. In 1988, he was invited to head the newly formed FRSC based on his novel initiative that led eleven years before to the founding of the Oyo state corps on road safety which he ideated. Salawu fell out with the more renowned…
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The Yoruba News FEB 10th, 1925 ON TOWN PLANNING OPPOURTUNITY Shakespeare was right when he sang: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, if taken at the flow, leads to success” This trite saying also applies to the affairs of nations and towns. There is presently a good opportunity for the Ibadan Native…
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Adegoke Sylvester is a Geologist from Ondo town, born July 1937. Adegoke coordinated the industrial studies of the extensive tar send bitumen-bearing beds of Ondo, Ogun and Bendel States within which heavy and extra-heavy crude oil is known to exist and which forms the basis for the production of lubricants, automatic fuels, sulphur, petrochemicals and…