‘Railway service will improve under Buhari’s administration’
and quest for national development, I am confident and hopeful The Nigeria Union that Nigerian Railway Dangote Industries Limited has announced a multiof Railway Workers will fair considerably million dollar joint venture agreement with Saipem, (NUR) has tasked the better under the the Italian engineering and construction giants. president-elect,General administration of
The agreement has given birth to a new company Muhammadu Buhari General. Buhari. named Saipem-Dangote E&C. on the need to address ‘’What it takes
According to a statement from Dangote Group, the fate of the rail to take Nigeria to the company, Saipem-Dangote E&C is a significant transport industry with higher level of national new player in the Nigerian and Central/West African a view to furthering development and market, with high technical and financial capabilities. the on-going asset stronger integration is a
The statement quoted Group Executive Director, rehabilitation and functional and effective Dangote Group, Mr. Devakumar Edwin as saying that modernization of the rail transport system. the new company aims to secure complex Engineering industry. I strongly believe that & Construction projects and to execute them at the The President what determines the highest levels of efficiency in terms of costs and timing, General of the NUR, extent a country like while maintaining sufficient flexibility to adapt to Comrade Raphael B. Nigeria can go in different project requirements. Okoro,who said this terms of development
Saipem and Dangote Group have a track record of in his congratulatory is its commitment successful collaboration, drawing on the strengths and message in Lagos to attaining rail competences of both companies. Dangote’s financial yesterday ,expressed infrastructural strength, expertise and standing in the Sub-Saharan optimism that Nigerian proficiency”, Okoro African market will complementsaid.Saipem’suniqueRailwaydevelopment capabilities in E & C. This newC partnership confirms would take a new and omrade the shared commitment of the two groups to both the improved turn under Okoro implored the Nigerian market and sub-Saharan Africa more widely. the administration of President-elect to come
Edwin, said “We are confident that our partnership General. Buhari. to the aid of Nigerian with Saipem will position us as a major player in the oil “Considering his Railway workers & gas sector. unbending patriotism who he described as workers most poorly remunerated. “Over the years, the federal government has spent several billions of naira on the asset rehabilitation and re-equipping of Nigerian railway without any impact on the welfare and liveability of the workers. The workers who put all these multibillion equipment to use still grope in poor remuneration and welfare”, Okoro added.
He said railway workers’ welfare and remuneration should be of great concern to the president-elect so as to attract skilled and employable Nigerians to the industry and eventually make railway the highest employer of labour it used to be in its hey days.