By Temitope Ponle
The Federal Government on Thursday said it would increase the number of trains plying the Abuja-Kaduna route to run a train per hour before the end of 2019.
Mr Freeborn Okhiria, Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) said this as part of activities of the Belt and Road Initiative’s celebration to mark 1,000 days of smooth operations of the rail system in Nigeria in Abuja.
Okhiria said that the increase in the number of trains was in response to complaints by Nigerians.
“People are complaining that we are not providing enough service.
“We are promising them that we will increase the number of trains we run before the end of the year; we should be able to target one train per hour.
“We have already ordered the coaches and those ones are going to be different from the ones we have.”
The NRC boss also said that the Federal Government had begun creating an e-ticket system to ease the…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria