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Lagos-Ibadan Rail Line Commences Commercial Operations

Lagos-Ibadan Rail Line Commences Commercial Operations

 

 

 

 

The Federal Government on Monday announced the commencement of the Commercial Operations on the Lagos-Ibadan rail line.

The Presidency in a Tweet said the commercial operations commenced today, Monday, December 7 and formal commissioning will be held in the first quarter of 2021.

Also, the Special Assistant to President Buhari on Digital and New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi via his official Twitter handle said the rail line has commenced operation “with only one trip return” for now.

“For now, according to the NRC, only one return trip daily, leaving Ibadan at 8:00 am for Lagos and leaving Lagos for Ibadan at 4:00 pm,” Ogunlesi said.

Ogunlesi in his tweet added that the “Speed and capacity will increase with time,” because, “there’s still some construction work ongoing.”

See tweets announcing the commencement of the operations below…

 

 

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, last week, while speaking in Abuja at the inauguration of elected members of the Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria (CIoTA), disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari will commission the newly constructed Lagos-Ibadan rail line by January 2021.

The Lagos-Ibadan railway, one of the major projects embarked on by the Federal Government, is being handled by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC).

Angela Davies

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