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Buhari names railway stations after Tinubu, Saraki, Soyinka, others


The President , Major General Muhammadu Buhari ( retd .) , 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.


Also honoured were ; Mobolaji Johnson ( Ebute Metta Station ) , Babatunde Fashola ( Agege Station ) , Lateef Jakande ( Agbado Station ) , Yemi Osinbajo ( Kajola Station ) , Funmilayo Ransome- Kuti ( Papalanto Station ) , Segun Osoba ( Olodo Station ) , and Micheal Ibru ( Opara Station ) .
Others include; Ladoka Akintola ( Omio -Adio Station ) , Obafemi Awolowo ( Ibadan Station ) , Alex Ekwueme ( Operation Control Centre) , Adamu Attah ( Itakpe Station ) , Augustus Aikhomu ( Itogbo Station ) , George Innih ( Agenebode Station ) , Anthony Enahoro ( Uromi Station ) , Tom Ikimi ( Ekehen Station ) , Samuel Ogbemudia ( Igbanke Station ) , David Ejoor ( Abraka Station ) , Alfred Rewane ( Ujevwu Station ) and Mike Akhigbe ( Railway Village, Agbor

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