Samson Echenim on July 26, 2013 - 5:31am
The Nigeria Railway
Corporation (NRC), yesterday, commenced operation of a third train
service on the Lagos-Kano rail line lifting over 1000 passengers, their
personal effects.
The train left Lagos at 12 noon to Kano after it was unveiled by the corporation’s board chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje.
“Regarding
passenger services, we are today increasing the capacity of our train
service between Lagos and Kano by this additional train service to
complement our current weekly Lagos-Kano-Lagos, Lagos to Illorin/Offa to
Kano and Minna to Kaduna intercity trains, and in no time, the
frequency of other services, carriage capacity and speed of these
services will be stepped up,” the NRC managing director, Engr. Adeseyi
Sijuwade said.
The NRC boss further disclosed that the
corporation’s Capacity Enhancement Programme (CEP) began this week
withthe haulage of bran and wheat flour for Dufil Prima Foods (maker of
Indomie noodles), with 436 tonnes of the product expected to be lifted
weekly from Apapa to Kaduna.
Sijuwade said that the corporation
would also start haulage of container freight from APM Terminal in Apapa
Port to Inland Container Nigeria Ltd (ICNL) container depot in Kaduna
and Kano, confirming earlier report by LEADERSHIP.
The NRC boss
stressed his commitment to protect the railway infrastructures
nationwide and appealed to the federal government to assist in providing
more coaches, wagons and locomotives for the corporation
http://leadership.ng/news/260713/3rd-lagos-kano-train-service-begins
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