By Our Correspondent The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) will address ticket racketeering at the Abuja-Kaduna Train Service (AKTS), TheNewsZenith quotes from an official statement. Yakub Mahmood, the corporation’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) gave this assurance in a statement, on Saturday, in Lagos. He stated that the management was aware of passengers’ difficulties in obtaining tickets […]
From Our Correspondent The Nigerian Railway Corporation recorded a 49.73 per cent decline in passenger freight, convening 672,198 passengers in Q4 of 2023, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) TheNewsZenith reports that this decline is against 1,337,108 people who travelled via rail system in the corresponding quarter of 2022. NBS gave these figures […]
By Our Correspondent Sen. Said Alkali, the Minister of Transportation, has described Thursday’s maiden trip of the Lagos-Ibadan freight train service as a significant milestone in Nigeria’s railway projects. In a statement, on Sunday in Abuja, Alkali said the commencement of the service also reinforced the government’s dedication to providing a robust transportation network to […]