It is not as yet connected to the main railway system of Nigeria, except by river. An isolated standard gauge railway connects the steelworks to its source of iron ore at Itakpe. A connection of this railway to the port of Warri is unfinished.
A celestial event – so rare it happens just 13 times in a century – is going to have all eyes looking skyward beginning Monday, May 9, ABCNews reported Wednesday. Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, will begin to transit the sun beginning at 7.12 a.m. ET, the report said ... The astronomical event, where the planet will transit across the face of the sun, will take 71/2 hours ... ET, according to NASA....
Technology keeps marching on and with new advances – such as the Google/Fiat partnership to bring the driverless car to the mass market – Canadian officials are worried driverless cars will lead to a greater increase in sex while in those cars, according to experts at the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCE) and reported by Raw Story....
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Ohio Gov. John Kasich will end his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Wednesday, making Donald Trump the party's presumptive nominee. Three campaign officials who spoke to The Associated Press said the Ohio governor plans to announce his decision in a statement from his home state later Wednesday. The officials spoke anonymously because they are not authorized to disclose Kasich's decision ... ---....
[Leadership] Startling details have emerged as to reasons why the Original Builders of AjaokutaSteelComplex have not yet been considered as probable technical partners for the completion of AjaokutaSteel Mill... ....
[Leadership] Ukraine has shown strong interest and commitment in further contributions towards the reconstruction of the AjaokutaSteelPlant, in Kogi State. According to the Ukraine Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr Valerii Aleksandruk, who spoke to members of the media in an interactive session in Abuja, noted that Ukrainian experts were ready to take part in the project ... ....
Nigeria is aiming to hand over the $4.5 billion Ajaokuta steel complex to private operators this year as part of a plan to kick start its industrial and mining industries, Kayode Fayemi, the country’s minister of Solid Minerals Development, said. Construction of Ajaokuta, which lies on the Niger River and was supposed to have an installed capacity of 5 million metric tons of steel a year, began in 1979....
[This Day] Abuja -The Senate yesterday implored the federal government to urgently put machinery in place to revive the AjaokutaSteelCompany, saying the move will create employment for local craft men, physically challenged at home and abroad and professionals in all fields ... ....
Four people killed were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber hit a military checkpoint on the outskirts of the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, civilian vigilantes told AFP. The blast happened at about 12.10 pm (1110 GMT) at the Jimtilo checkpoint, as passengers arriving in Maiduguri were being screened, they said ... Danlami Ajaokuta, another civilian vigilante, said the bomber struck in the middle of the crowd of passengers ... ....