Nigeria, Nov. 29 -- The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has been officially given the 62-kilometer, $3.02 billion Port Harcourt-Aba railway project to operate after the Federal Government completed it.

At a ceremony in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Mr. Ayo Dada, Project Supervisor at the Federal Ministry of Transportation, it has officially turned over the Port Harcourt-Aba segment, which is a part of the larger Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Eastern Narrow Gauge railway project, to the NRC.

Among the assets that have been transferred are 283.060 kilometres of disassembled tracks, 62.800 kilometres of restored mainline and subgrade rail, 5.690 kilometres of sliding lines, and the rebuilding of 27 turnouts at important stations, including Por...