NRC, LASG, NPA, NIWA, others back Nigeria transport summit

The Nigerian Railway Corporation, Nigerian Ports Authority, National Inland Waterways Authority and Lagos State Government have confirmed to be part the 2024 Nigeria Transport Summit holding in Lagos on October 17.

The event bringing together critical stakeholders in the transport sector, according to the organisers, Transportation Correspondents Association of Nigeria (TCAN), has ‘Intermodal Transport: Prospects and Challenges’ as its theme.

Other firms that have thrown their weight behind the programme are the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), the Federal Road Safety Corps, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Lagos Computerized Vehicle Inspection Service (LACVIS), Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, Worldwide Marine Services, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority and Fidelity Bank Plc, among others.

A statement issued by the TCAN Chairman, Mr Yinka Aderibigbe, and the event’s Organising Committee Chairman, Mr Rasheed Bisiriyu, said the programme to be chaired by Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu,
would be declared open by the Minister of Transportation, Senator Sa’idu Ahmed Alkali.
Former Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, would deliver a keynote address at the summit, it added.

TCAN Chairman, Aderibigbe, said, “The focus on intermodal transportation in the maiden edition of the annual summit is deliberate.

“It is aimed at bringing together relevant stakeholders across all subsectors of the transport industry to see the need to form and work in synergy with one another, rather than working in silos and at cross-purposes, which might pose greater challenge to achieving the dream of giving alternative travel modes to the Nigerian public.

“Such arrangement will pave the way for greater efficiency through lower costs, operational flexibility and reduced carbon emission in a world committed to cleaner environmental impact that will ultimately benefit all.”

Already, TCAN said a team of speakers had been carefully selected to do justice to the issue under focus.

“A panel of discussants featuring some relevant members of the intelligentsia, heads of prominent agencies/organisations will speak to the sub-themes of the summit around railway, road, inland waterways and aviation sub-sectors as well as safety of operations in the nation’s transportation industry,” the statement said.

A communique will be issued at the end of the event that is expected to come handy for stakeholders in deciding the new direction of the nation’s integrated transportation system.

An industry journal packaged by TCAN would be formally unveiled as one of the highpoints of the event, the committee also stated.

MIKE OCHONMA
Editor