Tag: Abuja-Kaduna

Diesel shortage grounds Abuja-Kaduna train service

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, has apologised for the delay in Abuja-Kaduna train service movement on Monday. The Manager, Abuja-Kaduna Train Service, Pascal Nnorli, who issued a statement after complaints by passengers, explained that the delay was due to a shortage in the supply of AGO, popularly known as diesel. According to him, the diesel received fell short of the standard required, and was outrightly rejected after a statutory laboratory test. The manager said the test is carried out on all liquid “used on the rolling stock, locomotives inclusive, in…

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NRC begins e-ticketing for Abuja-Kaduna train service

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says it has commenced the e-ticketing for train services on the Abuja-Kaduna route. The NRC Managing Director, Fidet Okhiria, told journalists yesterday, in Abuja that the process would be on test run for a week before its formal inauguration on Jan. 20. An e-ticket (short for electronic ticket) is stored in the airline/train’s reservation system and therefore eliminates the need for a printed ticket. The passengers are expected to check in with a government-issued photo ID (e.g., driver’s license, passport) to receive their boarding pass. …

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Nigerian Railway Corporation suspends its social distance policy on Abuja-Kaduna route

Aminu Imam

Ø  Maintains excessive ticket prices The Nigerian Railway Corporation, (NRC) has suspended its social distancing policy on sitting arrangement on the Kaduna – Abuja route. Findings also revealed that the NRC also maintains excessive ticket prices on the route. According to an NRC source, “the Hon Minister directed the corporation to discontinue the policy and maintain the higher ticket price”.   Recall that the Federal Government increased the train fares when the Abuja-Kaduna service resumed on July 29, saying it approved the increase due to the fact that the train will be conveying half…

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Abuja-Kaduna highway: 2 killed, five kidnapped in Sunday’s attack – Commissioner

Aminu Imam

The Kaduna State Government has said that only five people are kidnapped during Sunday’s attack on commuters along Abuja-Kaduna highway. The Commissioner, Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who made the disclosure in a statement issued on Monday in Kaduna, said that the figure was disclosed to government officials by relations of the kidnapped victims, adding that the government had forwarded the information to the relevant security agencies. According to him, only two people were killed during the attack contrary to earlier media reports that claimed that scores were…

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N190bn Debt: Abuja-Kaduna train service and burden of China loan

Ishaku Yohanna

Kaduna train project is one of the foremost projects executed with the loans from China, and there are doubts on how this project can generate enough to finance its repayment process, four years after the route was commissioned. In 2010, the Federal Government borrowed $500 million (about N190.5 billion) from the Chinese Government through the China Exim Bank to build the facility. A Chinese firm, the CCECC built the facility as part of the loan terms. The loan which is to be paid over a period of 20 years had…

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Abuja-Kaduna train: COVID-19 my worry, not security – El-Rufai

Ishaku Yohanna

The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said security is not an issue on the Abuja-Kaduna rail service but that of people obeying the federal government’s COVID-19 guidelines. Mr El-Rufai made this disclosure while briefing journalists on Saturday at the test-running operation trip of the Nigeria Railways Corporation (NRC) in Kaduna. “The train is secure, the train is well protected, even the Abuja-Kaduna highway is well protected, there has not been a kidnapping case there since October last year. “So, I’m not worried about security. What I want to…

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Abuja-Kaduna fare to cost N6,000 when train service resumes – Amaechi

Ishaku Yohanna

The train fare for the Abuja to Kaduna service will double when the train resumes, the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi has said. He stated this on Saturday while inspecting construction works on the Ikapke to Warri rail line.  Our Correspondent reports that before the lockdown, the fare on the service were as follows:  First class Express trip: N3,000; First-class normal trip: N2,500; economy express trip: N1,500 and economy normal trip: N1,300.  But with the new announcement, the fare will be as follows: N6,000, N5,000, N3000 and N2,600 respectively.…

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