NIGERIAN RAILWAY CORPORATION

Brief History

The Nigerian Railway System pioneered the rapid opening up of the geographical area called Nigeria. The Railway System, therefore represents the oldest modern form of transportation in Nigeria.

Railway development in Nigeria was initiated by private interest. This was later taken over by the then Colonial Government as Government Railway for the purpose of easy and cheap movement of bulk goods from the hinterlands to the seaports and vice versa.

The Nigerian Railway Corporation is over 112 years old and it runs a unilaterally designed track system of 1067mm cape gauge. Nigerian Railway System actually commenced rail business activities with the construction of the first rail line from Lagos to Ibadan (193km) between 1898 and 1901. By 1964 when the construction of 640km kano – Maiduguri rail line, then known as Bornu extension, was completed, the present core of the railway network had been put in place.

OYO GOVT DESTROYS NRC RAIL ASSETS WORTH MILLIONS OF NAIRA IN IBADAN, LG CHAIRMAN PERSONALLY PRESENT.

Lagos, Nigeria February 3, 2026-0:10PM The Nigerian Railway Corporation has disclosed that it received a worrisome report involving the destruction and removal of railway fixed assets worth several millions of Naira, along its right-of-way in Ibadan South-West Local Governinent Arca of Oye State. According to the […]

LASG SUPPORTS NRC AND RAILWAY COMPOUND RESIDENTS WITH STORM DRAINAGE CONSTRUCTION

Lagos, Nigeria – February 3, 2026 – 01:09PM The Nigerian Railway Corporation has announced a massive support from the Lagos State Government on the construction of the Carter-Railway Drainage Channel to deflood the entire Ebute-Meta railway compound as well as part of Olaleye and adjoining communities. […]