Lagos/Jebba rail line ready for use
Lagos, State News Sunday, February 27th, 2011
The Nigerian Railway Corporation has recorded another milestone as the 488 kilometer Lagos /Jebba rail line is now ready for traffic of passengers and goods.
The NRC Managing Director, Seyi Sijuwade, in a statement signed by the Assistant Director of Public Relations, Mr. David Ndakosu, said as soon as the rail line was commissioned next month, it would be opened for public use.
He added that the second section of the rail track, the Jebba/ Kano would soon be opened to traffic after the completion of the railway bridge in Akeri along the Jebba/Kano rail route.
The Federal Government in 2009 began a comprehensive rehabilitation and re-equipping of the NRC’s workshops, upgrading of the signals and telecommunication equipment, Lagos/ Kano track rehabilitation, fortification of the motive power base with 25 new general electric locomotive engines from Brazil.
Others are completion of Ajaokuta/Warri rail line, rehabilitation of over 200 coaches and wagons, building of railway stations and staff capacity building across the Corporation’s seven districts.
-Punch
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