The Nigeria Railway Company has concluded plans to launch night time operations earlier than the second quarter of 2024.
The Managing Director of NRC, Fidet Okhiria, disclosed this throughout an interview with the Information Company of Nigeria on Monday.
He began, “What’s limiting us is the night time operations, and that’s not the best way trains ought to function. The practice is supposed to function always. Folks might wish to journey within the night, however due to the safety scenario within the nation, we restrict ourselves to the daytime.
“We intend to convey again passenger and freight trains from Port-Harcourt to Aba, Lagos to Kano, and Kaduna due to the dry ports,” Okhiria stated.
Based on the NRC DG, this merely signifies that the company will start six practice journeys every day on the usual gauge practice throughout the board.
He stated, “We’re going to improve the variety of practice journeys to 6 on Lagos-Ibadan, Warri-Itakpe, and Abuja-Kaduna, which suggests the journeys will likely be thrice to and thrice fro, making six journeys in a day.
“The journeys will start earlier than the second quarter of 2024. Proper now, they’re working 4 journeys—two up and two down throughout the board.
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