Nigeria: NRC Begins Lagos-Kano Intercity Train, Fuel Haulage Services

22 December 2012

The minister of transport, Sen Idris Umar yesterday flagged off the much-awaited Lagos-Kano Intercity Train Services and haulage of petroleum products by railway, lifting 450,000 litres of diesel billed from Lagos to Offa and commuting thousands of passengers along the western axis through to Kano.

Inaugurating the service at the Yaba Headquarters of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), the transport minister said the rehabilitation of the 1126-kilometre railway line and other railway projects going on all over the different corridors in the country was an indication of the President Gooodluck Jonathan's administration's commitment to enhance the transport sector.

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