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  • Crisis: Abuja-Kaduna train services suspended – MD

    The Managing Director, Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, said on Saturday that the Abuja-Kaduna train services has been suspended till the security situation in Kaduna improves.
    Okhiria made this known tto the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in Abuja.
    He said that the train service was suspended on Friday because of the safety of the passengers, goods, coaches and wagons.
    “We decided to stop the train services yesterday (Oct. 27) because of the curfew and the crisis situation in Kaduna, passengers cannot go in and out of Kaduna and for the safety of the passengers and our vehicles we decided to stop the services.
    “We will resume normal operations when the situation in Kaduna state improves and the curfew is lifted,” he said.
    NAN recalls that the Kaduna State Government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Kaduna city and environs due to violent clashes recorded on Oct. 18 at Kasuwan Magani in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state and a fresh crisis over the death of Dr Maiwada Galadima, the kidnapped Agom Adara, in the hands of his captives.
    NAN

  • NRC announces 25% hike in fares for Kaduna-Abuja rail service

     

    The Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC has announced new fares on its Kaduna-Abuja route with effect from this Monday (yesterday).

    The 25 per cent hike, which came into effect from Feb. 6, had taken most passengers by surprise.


    TheNewsGuru.com reports that officials of the NRC were seeing handing over the list containing the new fares to passengers at the Rigasa station in Kaduna on Monday morning.

    The list, on the corporation’s letter-headed paper, which was unsigned, contained details of amounts for tickets from the Rigasa station in Kaduna to Idu station in Abuja, including other sub stations along the route.

    Passengers will now pay N1, 050 as against N600 for a standard ticket, and N1,500 instead of the N900 being paid for an executive seat from Rigasa to Idu.

    The document, written in English, Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa, indicated that the increase was “slight” and was to enable the corporation enhance services for the comfort of passengers.

    A passenger at the Rigasa station, Mukhtar Bello described the hike in fares as a “surprise”, and expressed the hope that the trend would not continue.

    “Passengers are heavily patronising this service because it is cheap and affordable. With this increase, there is no much difference with what one pays to board taxis and buses to Abuja, i hope this would not draw away passengers from here.”

    Mrs Grace Adegbite, the NRC spokesperson Northern District, declined comment on the increase, saying she had just resumed from leave.

    NAN