{"id":16766,"date":"2025-09-01T17:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=16766"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:37:06","slug":"minister-of-transportation-constitutes-committee-to-investigate-train-derailment-and-profer-permanent-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/minister-of-transportation-constitutes-committee-to-investigate-train-derailment-and-profer-permanent-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION CONSTITUTES COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE TRAIN DERAILMENT AND PROFER PERMANENT SOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transportation Sen. Said Ahmed Alkali has taken a decisive action following a train derailment which occurred yesterday 26th August, 2025 at Jerre, while proceeding from Abuja-Kaduna, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He directed that a committee of all stakeholders be constituted to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the accident; make recommendations on how to prevent similar incidents in the future; and identify ways to enhance the safety and effectiveness of rail transportation in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>While expressing concern about safety of life of passengers, The Hon. Minister has named the following as members of the committee:<\/p>\n<p>Musa O. Ibrahim (DOOPST) Chairman<br \/>\nProf. Danwaka Shuaibu STA (HMT) Member<br \/>\nEngr. Zirra Finbar D(RTS)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Member<br \/>\nBarr. Omotola Olusegun D(Legal)\u00a0 Member\/Secretary<br \/>\nDr. Kayode Opeifa\u00a0 (MD NRC)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Member<br \/>\nEngr. I.A Ebuniwe (Inspector Railway)\u00a0 Member<br \/>\nRepresentative of Technics Engineering<br \/>\nArchitecture Marketing Nig. Ltd\u00a0 Member<br \/>\nRepresentative of \u00a0 CCECC Member<\/p>\n<p>Rep. of Civil Society Organization Member<br \/>\nOne male. Representing male Passengers Member<br \/>\nOne female. Representing female Passengers Member<\/p>\n<p>Signed: Janet McDickson Noah<br \/>\nDirector, Press &amp; Information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transportation Sen. Said Ahmed Alkali has taken a decisive action following a train derailment which occurred yesterday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16768,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions\/16768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}