Having personally taken a ride on one of the Nigerian Railway Corporation's Mass Transit Train services which have now been extended to selected routes nationwide, I want to get your feedback on this service. Apart from the Mass Transit service, the NRC has also begun the haulage of heavy goods such as cement to ease the burden on our road networks. Have you been on these trains? Have you seen them? Please let me know your views so I can take them into consideration in making further policies in the transportation sector. GEJ

engr j:

Pls can any 1 help me here i want to send a topic but i don't no how to go about it cus am new here & i got an interesting story. share.

tunde300us:

This ppl re really out of touch with reality,which train is he talking abt sef ?

hercules07:

Guys should just visit the Railway yard at Alagomeji, you will weep for Nigeria, there are junks all over the place, infact, the most modern space there is owned by Lagos state (being used by the Chinese Construction company)

tunde300us:

Oga next time when u dey go your village make u take the train ,am sure u go do 2 holidays on the same spot .No one is saying the man isnt trying,but the fb post is just not it sir.
Which train i ask u again ?

engr j:

Can some 1 help me to send this topic i just read it on pm news {http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/09/30/woman-to-die-by-hanging/}

Woman To Die By Hanging
Emotions were high at High Court Number 10, Maiduguri, Borno State, northeast Nigeria today when Rebecca Emmanuel who was accused of poisoning her 9-year old son, Ishaya Emmanuel sometime in 2008 was sentenced to death by hanging.Rebecca, mother of four who was earlier granted bail by the court and had consistently appeared at the court during her trial, could not get the sympathy of the trial judge Justice Pirogai Ngada who, while delivering her judgement said: “I agree that she has four children and has never absconded from bail but Section 221 of the law under which she is convicted is a mandatory provision of culpable homicide punishable by death. I wish I can temper justice with mercy. But I can’t because she is hereby sentenced to death by hanging.”
On 20 January, 2008 Rebecca Emmanuel lured her son, Ishaya Emmanuel to a bush where she gave him a Maltina drink laced with poison which led to Ishaya’s death after which the convict burnt the corpse.
In one of her confessional statements during the trial, Rebecca had said: “I went to my father’s house and picked my child. We got to a place where I got a poisonous substance at the sum of N20 and matches. I took him to a bush and laced the substance in a bottle of Maltina.
“I made him drink it. After 30 minutes, the boy died and I set him ablaze, so that no one could recognise him and I left for my husband’s house.”
Delivering the judgement, the judge said she was satisfied by the confessional statement made by the accused person.
P.M.NEWS learnt that Rebecca Emmanuel had Ishaya out of wedlock. He was aid to be the product of an illicit relationship between Rebecca and a military officer.
She must have killed the boy because of the trauma she passed in the hand of the unknown military man.
As the matter is, it is not clear whether the convict will appeal the judgement.
—Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Maiduguri

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delpee:

The truth is that the trains are now working but they they dont look new or modern to me.  I have seen the overloaded snail-pace moving train around Ikeja and Yaba a few times when i had to go that way early in the morning. Someone who works at NRC also confirmed that the train goes to Ibadan (don't know how many hours sha).

I saw it being used as intercity transport in Kaduna some 2 years ago and was told there's Offa-Ilorin shuttle, Kano Intra city service etc. The Abuja line is being constructed if the place that I was shown not too far from Eagle square is anything to go by.

I am being encouraged to take a ride using the first class cabin which is said to be comfortable. Problem is that I cant risk spending too many hours going to Ibadan even though the express road is a constant nightmare too.

Meanwhile GEJ should bring more coaches (hopefully more modern this time) so people will stop hanging on the doors or sitting on the roof (as i saw in Ikeja) thereby risking their lives.

goggs:

the trains in Kaduna work and is a sure way to beat the traffic jam on the bridge across river kaduna. Its dead cheap and heavily patronised too.

I think the rail  system is more suited for goods for now not people

marvix:

I think GEJ just wants to get feedback from us.

For all we know, the guys running the rail maybe asking for approval of N1b for trains working and GEJ wants to hear first hand how far the amounts released last time has affected us.

Portharcourt has not seen any train or rail and I have said this on his status, instead of always criticising why dont we engage our leaders, if you have pics post them on his wall where he can see it if he actually goes through it, but I can tell you that Jonathan actually follows us on social media at least his advisers tell him what we are saying.

This to me is the dividend and beauty of democracy, we can actually talk to our leaders!!!