AMAECHI INNUAGRATES CIoTA GOVERNING COUNCIL … Says Lagos-Ibadan rail charges has been approved
Oru Leonad
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Thursday, December 5, innuagrated the council of the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria (CIoTA) in Abuja.
Amaechi promised that the ministry would collaborate with CIoTA to enable them achieved their objectives.
He added that transportation was more than administration but without administration there would be no transportation.
The minister said CIoTA role was critical to the growth of transportation in Nigeria adding that the country had advanced a lot in the area of transportation.
The primary aim and objectives of the Institute is to advance the study, training and practice of transport management and administration in Nigeria regardless of specialization within the industry; and to set standards of practice and determines the knowledge and skills to be attained by persons seeking to become registered members of the Institute and practice as a Chartered Transportants.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved passengers’ charges on the new Lagos Ibadan rail standard guage which would begins operations by January.
The theme for the 2nd Annual Summit is “Building Sustainable Transport Infrastructure in Nigeria :Opportunities, Innovations and Technologies”.
The Minister disclosed that: he received the mandate of President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate the Lagos /Ibadan rail project by Jan. 2021 which will makes Nigerians see the way the standard gauge railway looked like.
“Today I approved the charges on passengers from Lagos to Ibadan, we just transfer how we charged from Abuja to Kaduna.
“We charge N3,000 per Economy seat, N5,000 for Business class and N6,000 for First class, the same is applicable to Lagos to Ibadan.
“It should have started running by now before Mr President inaugurate it by January.”
The minister said there had been tremendous changes in most of the air terminals saying that the Minister of Aviation would inform the public of the completion of Lagos/Kano terminal.
Speaking earlier the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Security and Safety Administration (NIMASA), recalled that Presidet Muhammadu Buhari signed the bill establishing the act last year, 2019.
He noted that the the supervising ministry of the Institute is the Ministry of Transportation despite carving out of the Aviation Ministry and the pipeline transportation of oil by the Nigerian Nalional Petroleum Corporation NNPC, said that the Institute will ensure regular upgrading of skills and knowledge of members to properly man the infrastructure that the FGN is building. He also said that CIoTA is reaching out to all the tertiary Institutions that have Transportation studies and operations.
On the choice of Rt honourable Amaechi as Patron the Inauguration of the council members, Dr Jamoh said, “I have been working with you for the past 5 years and no other person is more qualified to be part of udof than the Minister of Transportation”.
The theme for the 2nd Annual Summit is “Building Sustainable Transport Infrastructure in Nigeria :Opportunities, Innovations and Technologies”.
