One of the newly procured Warri-Itakpe standard gauge train coaches was on Tuesday evening gutted by fire.

This is even as a video trending online showed Nigerian Railway Workers (NRC) battling the inferno with leaves, blankets and other objects due to the non-availability of fire extinguishers on board the train coaches.

Speaking exclusively with the Nigerian Tribune early on Wednesday morning, a staff of the NRC said the cause of the fire is still unknown.

“The cause of the fire is still unknown as we speak but it has finally been put out. It is one of the new trains that runs scheduled trips between Warri and Itakpe,” the staff told Nigerian Tribune exclusively.

When asked why NRC workers were seen in a video battling the fire with leaves and blankets instead of a fire extinguisher, the staff said most of the train coaches don’t have fire extinguishers fitted in them.

“Most of the train coaches don’t have fire extinguishers. So the workers used what was available to them as of the time of the incident and they were able to quench the inferno even though a substantial part of the coach was burnt,” the staff added.

When contacted, the Spokesman of the NRC, Mr. Mahmood Yakub explained that investigation is ongoing to unravel the cause of the fire.

“Our MD will be addressing the media on the cause of the fire before the close of Wednesday, but investigation is ongoing to know what caused the fire on one of the Warri-Itakpe coaches,” the NRC Spokesman told the Nigerian Tribune exclusively.

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Ameachi sef... Even Tokunbo train should not be this bad

Road transporters handiwork.

E don red ...

Not a single fire extinguisher on sight.Someone remind me how many millions was spent looted on this project. Sai failure.

We too mumu for Nigeria.

This type of fire extinguisher is a shame of 21st century

Imagine using weeds to quench burning fire

This is not hilarious at all

So in that train no fire extinguisher? Chai.. This corn-tree is finished

naija

Did they just say no fire extinguisher?

thanks to God no live was lost

The
Greatest Enemy
Of
The Black man
Is Himself.

Goslow train

We don't have enough and fire is still consuming the few we have, so unfortunate.

Wahala be like Buhari trousers!

Everything is just on the edge. Never before.

The trains are supposedly the biggest achievement of Buhari yet the biggest pipe drain of this shithole

We sold the country to China loans to acquire fairly used stuffs that are playtoys for bandits


Draining more resources in repairs than the income they should give

Na was

It is not possible the coaches don't come with extinguishers.

Trust news media to spin tales.

The money meant for fire extinguisher is cooling in some one's bank account right now.

I mean someone that won the highly inflated contract to supply them billions of fire extinguisher

Corruption is the bane of this country. We should be using speed train by now.

Imagine the first train route in Nigeria was completed in 1898. Lagos - Kano started operating in 1927. Railway was built by colonialist to aid export of raw materials.
Many decades after independence, we are yet to design a route and maintain our railway system that can serve our national interest.
I wish the colonialist stayed longer till 2000. We would have been better off.

Golan007:
It is not possible the coaches don't come with extinguishers.

Trust news media to spin tales.

The media likes to spin ambiguous, illogical tales to sensationalize their stories, but if we take a cursory look at it, there is obviously some form of negligence, how can a new coach just catch fire?

Naija My country, i hail thee.

I counted over 4 used extinguishers on ground. Why the narrative? It is one thing to have extinguishers it is another to know how to use it. This reporting is spreading falsehood.

I hope this is not sabotage?

Oh Nigeria!
See your loans, now Nigerians will pay the #10/litre tax on carbonated drinks for nothing

Mr. Amaechi come explain

Nigeria is a booming buisness/looting ground for this people, they loot, find their way out and enjoy their loot quietly...some will even boldly stay and flash the loot

Chinese loan on fire!

SAI BABA 4+4+4

Sai Tinubu (Una go eat AGBADO tire if he ever becomes president)

But I know YOLUBA Muslims are EXTREMIST COWARDS and won't hear..

We will not accept YOLUBA Muslims in ALAIGBO when Fulani starts completely eroding them out of the surface of this earth after 2023 that's if Tinubu or Fulani Hausa man becomes president..

BE WARNED!!!

SMH

Fire extinguisher of 5k, they can't put on the trains. Ndi ara.

Let us not only blame buhari for most things

Rotimi Amaechi has been the Minister for transportation for 7 years but no train is going to his state where he was a former governor for 8 years and former House of Assembly speaker

This is what he has been able to do for the south for 7 years

Abeg no be only Goodluck dey this group

Surprisingly this would have been paid for but looted by those oga at the top and followers.

From start to bottom, some Nigerians are CORRUPT