Nigeria’s first ever high speed train service will open for service in March 2016. It is the double-track, standard gauge between Abuja and Kaduna that runs at 120Km and 150 Km an hour. Come March, travelers will be able to journey from Abuja to Kaduna (and vice-versa) in less than an hour.

The project which was just completed by the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) cost $849 million. The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Adeseyi Sijuwade while addressing the media in Lagos said

“Next month, we’ll be taking delivery of modern coaches to run on the standard gauge line, specifically for the Abuja-Kaduna line, so that that service can commence immediately,”

According to him, the corporation was looking at a February-March timeline to commence delivery of services.

The rail project was supposedly completed in December 2014, but was never delivered. And even if the delivery is 15 months later than expected, it is good news that it finally works considering the fact that it has spanned nearly four administrations.

Spanning from the Obasanjo administration to present, an active and efficient rail system has been marred for a long time by inefficiencies and corruption on a massive scale. As since the contract was awarded in the Obasanjo era, there has not been any positive move to see its fruition.

Trains were originally designed to transport heavy duty goods like the goods ferried from the seaports on giant trailers that block and damage the road causing traffic gridlock. Some rail tracks have been rendered dysfunctional and unusable from the many years of being left idle.

A working rail system is key to our messed up transportation system as roads would be eased off and traffic gridlocks become a thing of the past. The Lagos to Ibadan route was also commissioned in 2010 with this Abuja-Kaduna route, as well as the Lagos to Calabar route.

The government should also consider other routes that are frequently traveled and are heavily congested, like roads out of Lagos to other commercial hubs.


https://techpoint.ng/2016/01/26/high-speed-train-in-nigeria/


God Bless GEJ

Thank you GEJ

Nigerians will forever be grateful to you.

let's hope it works.

THEY WONT BLAME JONATHAN FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT, BUT IF IT IS THE OTHER WAY ROUND THEY WOULD WAIL TILL THY KINGDOM COME?

OZAOEKPE:
THEY WONT BLAME JONATHAN FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT, BUT IF IT IS THE OTHER WAY ROUND THEY WOULD WAIL TILL THY KINGDOM COME?

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...did you not read that this project
was started during Obasanjo's time
chekwu abiama o...
we ibos need to think
before we write.

OZAOEKPE:
THEY WONT BLAME JONATHAN FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT, BUT IF IT IS THE OTHER WAY ROUND THEY WOULD WAIL TILL THY KINGDOM COME?

You think if na Jonathan dey there the train for land naija?
The money for don disappear since.
All thanks to PmB
Sai baba

ibotic:


Are you plain stewpeed or just daft...did you not read that this project was started during Obasanjo's time

Am already crushing on this babe for this.

AceBeauti:
Thank you GEJ

Nigerians will forever be grateful to you.

Ibotic see another one

Spanning from the Obasanjo administration to present, an active and efficient rail system has been marred for a long time by inefficiencies and corruption on a massive scale. As since the contract was awarded in the Obasanjo era
Just incase they missed it.

ibotic:


Kyase...this is my response..

@Aceugli
I am from Nnewi..
I am sure...
our flat.heads
is why we do not think...
chukwu okike abiama o
let us stop this...
otherwise we will..
remain gala sellers.

This is serious.
#flat.heads
#aceugli
#acebeauti

Time to go settle in kaduna and leave Abuja wahala. I pray and strongly wish this is true and it will truely commence operation in march. I usually wonder why our political class prefer wasting resources on buillding roads when rails are more effective, cheaper, more comfortable, faster and safer.

God will punish all those that said GEJ never did anything when their leader is yet to flag off a road project.

Thanks OBJ for the incubation
Thanks GEJ for the execution
Thanks Buhari for the actualization

Thank you , Buhari.
It's your body odour at work.

You all are just being naive and ignorant. You will agree with me that idea is worth nothing, Execution is what matters.
GEJ executed this project and thats quite simple and we must appreciate him for that.

You can go argue with your grandmother.

These trains are way too costly. We never get tubes and the costs run into millions of dollars imagine if we decide to get underground tubes. Anyway thank GOD for the one we get

Thank GEJ for what ? For being clueless not to complete the projected timeline slated for 2014.

AceBeauti:
Thank you GEJ

Nigerians will forever be grateful to you.

.......

First they impose ₦50 bank charge, then they increase price of Kerosene used only by the poor. Were they elected to change poverty into hardship?

All thanks to GEJ

kayfra:
Thanks OBJ for the incubation
Thanks GEJ for the execution
Thanks Buhari for the actualization

Why do most Nigerians forget about Yaradua.

Okay

Yet GEJ did nothing....#lyingAPC

Dats nice

Must the op copy a photo of speed train from google

Wailers, where are Jonathan's locomotive engines?

We know who initiated it "just as Rome was not built in a day",so let's honour who revived railway in Nigeria GEJ.
No amount of propaganda can erase or cover the good effort of a hero GEJ

If GEJ had still remain, maybe by now all the railways would have been effective and refinery which he started would have began its full function and maybe 1$ wouldnt have been 305 naira. Agriculture would have been our bed rock.