FG APPOINTS ENGR FIDET EKUYEMI OKHIRIA MD, NRC

Mr Fidet Okhiria, Director Mechanical, Electrical, Signal and Telecommunications of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has emerged as the acting Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation.

Okhiria, an engineer, takes over from Adeseyi Sijuwade, whose regime came to a sudden end on Monday, in a Tsunami that shook 26 parastatals of the federal government.

The new helmsman, who it was learnt had led some management officials of the corporation to Abuja on Tuesday, promised his total commitment to the ongoing transformation of the Nigerian Railway Corporation.

Sijuwade, an engineer, came on board as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation in August 2010, and had gotten his tenure renewed in 2014 by the last administration of President Goodluck Jonathan due to the legacy efforts he made to reactivate the dead corporation.

He was into the second year of his second term when he was axed on Tuesday.