Are you a native of Osun State residing in Lagos and you plan to travel this weekend to your state? This news may interest you.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration has announced a free train ride for Osun State citizens to ease their movement during the Eid-el- Kabir celebration.

The Director of Communication and Strategy, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, who disclosed this in a statement yesterday, noted that the free train ride had become a tradition in the state.

According to him, the schedule as released by the Ministry of Commerce and Cooperatives showed that the free train service would commence on Thursday and end on Sunday.

Quoting a statement signed by the Commissioner, Mr. Ismail Jayeola Alagbada, the director disclosed that the free train would start conveying people from Lagos to Osogbo, the state capital, by 9 am daily, adding that the return journey would also commence from Osogbo to Lagos on Saturday and Sunday by 10am prompt. According to the statement, the gesture is to ensure stress-free homecoming during Eid-el-Kabir. Similar gestures were offered during Ramadan, Christmas and Easter periods.

He said: “This gesture is from the government of Governor Rauf Aregbesola to the people, who intend to come home during the festive period, but always encounter transportation problem. “The free train ride commenced last year and has been a regular gesture from the government to the people during Christian and Muslim festival periods.

This government wants transportation comfort for its citizens, who hitherto normally encountered hardship and fare hike during the rush period.” He, therefore, enjoined Osun State citizens in Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states to embrace the free train ride offered by the government to come home and celebrate Sallah with their relatives

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Nice one from my governor.

here comes the CROWD

nice mov

9ce 1

Omo! See crowd. We too like free thing and cheap particles

how does this affect the price of garri nice move sha

Ogbeni Aregbe, God bless you!

He said: “This gesture is from the government of Governor Rauf Aregbesola to the people, who intend to come home during the festive period, but always encounter transportation problem. “The free train ride commenced last year and has been a regular gesture from the government to the people during Christian and Muslim festival periods.

Thumb up for Ogbeni

forkinsonlolo: how does this affect the price of garri nice move sha

. Do you want to be ban?

Why do we spend government money on religious festivals in Nigeria?. Can't we make religion a private thing?. I don't think this is a nice move by an elected official.

xandy84: . Do you want to be ban?

stonebridge: Why do we spend government money on religious festivals in Nigeria?. Can't we make religion a private thing?. I don't think this is a nice move by an elected official.

The same reason we spend government money on electricity

xandy84: . Do you want to be ban?

Which train na dat long box wey even keke napep run pass am, gud move sha but naija rail system is nothing 2 write home about

stonebridge: Why do we spend government money on religious festivals in Nigeria?. Can't we make religion a private thing?. I don't think this is a nice move by an elected official.

Nigerians are religious piple dis move is one hell of such moves used in getting votes come next election

Another means of embezzling public funds.afterall its 4rm d state treasury. Mtchewww

forkinsonlolo: how does this affect the price of garri nice move sha

Senseless and crap.

how does this affect the price of RAM...

Thanks to Tinubu.......

This man and his cheap moves Mstchew!

Oh, really?

Sure it will be [b]Sallah 2014 [/b]before they get to Oyo state not to talk of Osun state.. LOL

which train sef? The berec AAA battery operated wagons... LOL LWKMD oooooo

Ogbeni Rauf..... popular Governor.......

hi

It is interesting that most of u guys and d ACN guuns hv conveniently 'forgotten' that smone( GEJ) made it possible for trains to move again afta many many yrs of bn comatose by on-going rehabilitation of ALL existing rail tracks across d country and building of new ones. If na to criticize nw, their mouth to pass its natural limit.....#hypocrites

Can boko harm enter free wit their bomb,abeg mk na the careful free tin no 2 gud oo

Gud work frm our made in Nigeria Osama..

it is far better than doing nothing at all,those that benefit from it will b more happier.good move.

THAT IS GENEROUS OF HIM

Ucheosefoh: Which train na dat long box wey even keke napep run pass am, gud move sha but naija rail system is nothing 2 write home about

i wonder o. I was in Ibadan the day i saw the train. O boy no see o. That train na 1942 train wey don rust sotee i come dey wonder whether our Nigerian govt no get paint for this country again to paint am. I wonder how the interior go look like. It must be one smelly, ugly thing to ride with.