Awesome

Clairvoyant:
after now one idiot will come on air to still say Nigeria is broke

.....and so they can't pay the allowance and entitlements of our Super Eagles players and can't pay the salaries of the coach.
Only to dey throw empty salute after the boys have won.
Who salute epp?
Thanks Mikel for bailing them out o jare.
You be better person unlike our leaders looters.

What's the duration of the journey? Can I book a ticket in advance from their website if they have any?

If you think apc have the intentions of telling the truth any time soon, you are on a long thing. By the time passengers start complaining about poor service, they will remember GEJ and pdp and how there was not enough money to do maintenance. They will forget they were making 5million in two weeks

Will go on tourism from Abj to Kaduna very soon and will be spending 4 days.
If we liberalise our political structure, sTates can go into patnership with other states to creat their own rail-line thereby boosting their IGR.

Good. Let's work on and correct the lapses though

I hop dis services last in maintenance n co in a YEAR TIME as we know hw e dey go as usual....

is it net profit.... make I ask cos I know say dis illiterate dura people nor sabi calculate profit.....
hope u minus the cost of operation
cos of diesel alone for 2weeks fit pass dat N5m

Please I need serious information on the train schedule Kafanchan to Enugu. Please treat as urgent!!

He does not have the daily records of a flagship service shows there is already stealing there. Why aren't thd Chinese running it. Why?. And the first casualty of lack of record/stealing is maintenance and eventually system collapse. That service should be in private hands under concession.

As to the economics, 5 million to the rail lines means 4 million out of the hands of private transporters which is not cool. What however is wonderful is the number of vehicles off the Abuja/Kaduna Highway. This translates to a few extra hours or days in the lifespan of that road and will save huge amounts in road maintenance costs. Why I say a few hours or days as opposed to months or years is that the prime factor in Nigerian road lifespan remains the heavy loading or overloading as depicted by trucks and other articulated vehicles. This is what we should be targetting first or as a priority. And the Kaduna/Abuja route has no serious cargo demand. But take a look at the Oshodi/Apapa Highway, the closer you get to the ports, the worse the roads get and are always in perpetual reconstruction, gulping billions over the years, no wonder Julius berger has a yard in that area because they see what we don't, that the road cannot be permanently fixed, ever, so they set up shop waiting like lions at the only watering hole in the savannah knowing for certainty the buffaloes will come at dusk to drink.

Privatize that thing before it is been mismanaged

Johnnyessence:
The Abuja-Kaduna train service recorded N5 million income within the first two weeks of operation, Mr Fidet Ikhiria, Acting Managing Director of Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), has said.

Ikhiria made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) while travelling on the train from Abuja to Kaduna on Saturday.

The Managing Director of NAN, Mr Bayo Onanuga and the Editor-in-Chief, NAN, Mr Ado Lawal, were also on board.

NAN recalls that President Muhammadu Buhari recently inaugurated the 1.46 billion dollars Abuja-Kaduna train service was inaugurated on July 26 by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Ikhiria said that he did not have record of the daily income of the service.

“In the first week of operation, we made N2.2 million; in the second week, we made N2.9 million.

“This is the third week of operation; the last week report showed that we had almost 5,000 passengers in six days.

”We have capacity for 320 passengers per trip; for now, the maximum we can carry per trip is 320.

”So, for a day, the maximum number of passengers we can have is 1000,” he said.

Ikhiria said that fencing of the tracks would commence before the end of August.

He acknowledged that there were some operational lapses on the route, and said that the management was working toward addressing them.

He said that some of the staff had yet to get used to the seat numbering as it was different from what was obtainable in the previous trains.

According to the managing director, the coaches are overwhelmed by the number of people coming on board.

“Some passengers with economy class tickets are coming to sit on the first class coach because the economy class is filled up.

”We are going to do more enlightenment on this at the station and communities levels.”

On the speed of the train, he said that the parameter for speed was not coach but track which, according to him, was designed according to specification.

He said the train moved at 90 kilometres per hour from the initial 70 kilometres per hour but would get to 150 kilometres per hour in due course.

“The slow speed of the train is to avoid accidents as people living close to the tracks have yet to get used to the movement of train,’’ he explained.

Okhiria said that efforts were being made to beef up security at the stations and on board the train.

“By next week, our scanners will be in place; I am also discussing with Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to deploy more men.

“We have armed policemen on board and some security personnel without uniform,” he said

He added that efforts were also being made to install internet facilities in the train.

In an interview, the Managing Director of NAN, Mr Bayo Onanuga, who was on board the train, lauded the service and said that Nigerians were beginning to enjoy train services the way they did in the 60s and the 70s.

Onanuga, who was in company with the Editor-in-Chief of NAN, Mr Lawal Ado, however, said that NRC needed to do more work to improve on the train services.

”Apparently, NRC underestimated the interest of our people in boarding train.

”They need to acquire more trains; they need to increase the capacity and increase the frequency of movement.

”They need to provide food and other services such as internet.

“It is a good one; we made it to Kaduna in two and half hours,” he said.

Another passenger, Mr Kayode Emmanuel, told NAN that the system of boarding the train was chaotic and disorganised.

He said that the management should know the number of passengers each coach contained and sell tickets accordingly to avoid crowded coaches.

On his part, Isa Yusuf, who was also on board, said that he expected that passengers on the first-class coach would be given light refreshment. (NAN).


http://www.leadership.ng/news/545972/abuja-kaduna-train-service-records-n5m-income-in-2-weeks

AFTER THE LOOTED ONES, BA?

Proffdada:
Wailers won't like this

Why won't we wailers like the handiwork of our boss GEJ?

That is good, but that is not the figure we need. What is the profit from the 5M earning? It is the profit that will make it sustainable, not the gross earnings

Proffdada:
Wailers won't like this

Wailers love this....GEJS project coming to save the day in this trying time.

What have you guys initiated?


#proudwailer

DickDastardly:
Kill all politicians today and watch nigeria bounce back

what of sense??

Johnnyessence:
nigeria will be great again it just a matter of time. congratulations to the team naija of rio olympics football team. this victory to the final by d special grace of God.more railways need to be constructed. our steel rolling factories need to be revisited and revived more jobs will be created ooo.kudos to minister of transport more revenue to d government.

Kudos to GEJ you mean...
He initiated the project

Sunofgod:
what was the cost of the project and how far away is it from the breakeven point?

Ask your daddy, awon ele awon ele won stupid gaan

Really? That must be net of what have been stolen.

Good venture.

Am I the only one that thinks that amount is ridiculous?

Naija politicians are cursed with lying. After all these nonsense lies, they 'll still tell us the country is broke.

fiizznation:
Nice development. Things are gradually falling in place. I hope and pray things should continue to get better for the good of the common man.

And that man heading CBN should also sit up. The kindergarten policies he keeps introducing everyday are not for a country like Nigeria that is still struggling on every side of its economic sector. Mrs kemi, you too should also spare us the big grammars and start producing good results. Mrs kemi might be intelligent and all that, but her overzealousness is my number problem with her.

Thanks you, Egypt made 7 million Egypt currency daily from train services.

N5m cannot even pay the electricity needed to run those trains.

Almost two years gone & this stu.pid govt have not done one single thing but not ashamed of ripping from GEJ's work & boasting about it...shameless PHULS

the managing director of NRC is Engr Fidet Okhiria and not fidet ikhiria.

Is the N5m gross or is it net?

This is one question I doubt we ever ask in Nigeria. Railways and trains require a massive amount of routine maintenance. Whilst declaring that N5m has been made, has daily operational and maintenance costs been subtracted?... Have railway personnel been paid?.... Or would government continue to supply cash for operations and maintenance and salaries of railway staff from the budget?

I've said it before, railway business should be business to make profit and even revenue for government; government should hands off the managing of these railways for private investors if the railway initiative must survive.

MAny might find this comment strange, but I think the N500 fare for Abuja to Kaduna route is too cheap for a high speed comfortable train, the subsidized fare is just a political move which will eventually end in disaster. Just like our dead refineries, instead of making profits for government, the trains will be a government liability instead of an asset. Train transport is not cheaper than road transport in the developed world where things work, in the UK for instance, inter-city train travel is even more expensive than travelling by flight.

Government should look for a way to privatise these new rails to investors who can manage them efficiently.

I don't see any federal character in this scheme... why are they the only region enjoying federal structures/projects


buhari wickedly remove Lagos - Calabar proposed train track from the budget... APC should stop fooling themselves... abeg who abandoned Russian locomotive train EPP

Now imagine train service all-over the country .

jaymejate:
[size=13pt]What pains me is, Price of Rice nor gree decrease. So who train service epp[/size]

even the holy books says man shall not live by bread alone! forget rice & bread for now!

hustler86:
Now imagine train service all-over the country .

Especially Lagos to Ibadan to Ilorin. That train route in long overdue!

hahahaha...its a nice development oh only that d bad guys that will loot the profit of dis establishmnt just woke up. Efcc get set! just mark ds statemnt. EFCC will still b after some sharp brain if i know Niaja too well...

they should also include wifi in the train to sweeten d journey.