The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , has named railway stations along the Lagos-Ibadan and the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri corridors after “deserving citizens who contributed to the progress and
development of their respective communities and the nation at large”, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said.
This was contained in a statement by the Ministry of Transportation on Monday titled, ‘Buhari Names Railway Stations After Prominent Nigerians’. According to the statement signed by the ministry’s Director, Press and Public Relations, Eric Ojiekwe, the minister disclosed that the Apapa Station has been named after the All Progressives Congress stalwart, Bola Tinubu; the Abeokuta Station named after respectable Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, while the Ajaokuta Station was conferred on Olusola Saraki, the late father of former Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
Others include; Ladoka Akintola , Obafemi Awolowo , Alex Ekwueme , Adamu Attah , Augustus Aikhomu , George Innih , Anthony Enahoro , Tom Ikimi , Samuel Ogbemudia , David Ejoor , Alfred Rewane and Mike Akhigbe .had earlier reported that Buhari approved that the name of the railway station in Agbor, Delta State, be called
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