21 December 2012

FG INAUGURATES LAGOS-KANO INTERCITY PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE

Excited Passenger at the inaugural trip
Federal Government has inaugurated the Nigeria Railway Corporations Lagos - Kano intercity passenger train service and haulage of petroleum products. Minister of Transport Senator Idirs Umar in an interview with newsmen emphasised that government was still committed to revamping the transport sector particularly railway services.

Umar said federal government has also awarded contracts for feasibility studies to open up other railway routes, adding that the government was rehabilitating the eastern railway line from Port-harcourt to Maiduguri with spur lines from Kuru- Kafanchan- Kaduna and Kuru Jos.

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