Comsol:


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

This is not high speed train please.

Standard rail gauge no doubt and better than the primitive one running from lagos to kano.

But this like 2nd generation in rail technology . We still have up to 4th generation. A good way to go anyway.

grandstar:


These are insurgents not terrorists

Google the difference but are rebellion against a state.

gallantmoi:
Colombia has been fighting terrorism from time immemorial.

NA needs to partner with Colombia army to share knowledge on how they have been winning the war against terrorism.

Good move Mr. Buratai

Better pickin.

But oga buratai looks too serious for my liking

Why would u date someone for 6 years haba without letting her know when she is gonna be a wife?

Bro, dese days girls wan commot their papa house be someone wife ooo.

So no long thing again..6 years Biko. ...?

I for don get b.sc. and m.sc no matter the AS UU strike

looseweight:
If this report is good, then its bad of wizkid to have stolen another man's song.

It would have been better if wizkid can follow olamide's idea of getting lyrics from debanj and acknowledge the fact that he got it from him.

Olamide getting lyrics from dbanj and acknowledge. ? Hello Wat re u saying pls. ..

Link or source? ??

Stale...


U posted before now

Really

Such projects in ogun?

Can someone from ogun testify to this

kiddoiLL:

Piers Morgan is a former judge from Britain's got talent and America's got talent... he's one popular Arsenal fan always speaking his mind... Google go fit school you on the rest..llnp

Of cours3 I know..jus don't know y he is writing ds pie ace about him.

Does it increase the seling price of crude oil or facilitates the quick passage of 2016 budget?

Adekorya:

Do you know Google is working?

Of cours3 I know..jus don't know y he is writing ds pie ace about him.

Does it increase the seling price of crude oil or facilitates the quick passage of 2016 budget?

kiddoiLL:

Piers Morgan is a former judge from Britain's got talent and America's got talent... he's one popular Arsenal fan always speaking his mind... Google go fit school you on the rest..llnp

Of cours3 I know..jus don't know y he is writing ds pie ace about him.

Does it increase the seling price of crude oil or facilitates the quick passage of 2016 budget?

Who is piers Morgan. ?

Omo that must be ikale weed.

Osogbo or okrika weed.

RebelChip:
Africans and their warped sense of reasoning.... Why can't you just understand it that your time has not reached? Thanking God for sparing your life through mystical means is like also thanking God for not saving those people on the bus! Or is he no longer the almighty? What do you think will be the fate of the relatives of the people who died? Are you aware some of them might be bread winners? The fact is that their time is up and their fate decided. If she was alone in her car and was saved from accident, her post would have been somehow understandable...

Young lady, just be happy that you are alive! Simple... If your time don reach, even if you like loose ten million naira in that park, you will be on that bus....

That was how a bomb went off in a Church in the North and a foool came to facebook to thank God for making his mum not wake up for the morning service... Thereby saving her. Meanwhile, hundreds died in the same church that day oo... Which is ironically, "The House Of God"

Like seriously. ..

Why this post?

I don't buy this idea of publishing reports like this.


So you are mocking others that died?

God have a reason for sparing your life and thank him in secret not like pharisees and sadducees with an holier than though attitude.

Chikena!

momentoftruth:
All suspicious activity spotted again

Cc: Tonyebarcanista

You need to say some thing

Ok.

Nice video about shoe shiners

He writes analytical and back his writing with facts.

I don't know him nor follow till last two weeks.

Sure everybody and work should have critics that doesn't degrade him.though..moreover, we are here in a forum.


Cc: Tonyebarcanista
Where

Hmmmm

These are actions


We need to replicate this at the federal level.

Call me a prostitute, if this elrufai perform well and contest at the federal level. ..my song will change come 2019 ooooo.

First. ..kaduna cab, kaduna carnival, employment of new teachers among others..now this..primary school feeding program.May God continue to be with you el rufai for turning the destiny of kaduna around.

RealityShot:
Why is the onne sea port not clearing containers?
Why is it not helping to deliver imported petrol?

Why did Nigeria spend so much to build sea port
99% of goods are still imported through the older sea port in lagos?

Onne online lagos is a very free place..
Trucks can park and load whatever without encroaching into port Harcourt city I unlike lagos.




So y not use that port?

Why pay shipping companies dumorage daily to wait till they get discharged at lagos port?

Is it politics again?

Nigeria should learn effective and efficient ways of leaving..

What are you saying OP?
That onne port don't work? Or it doesn't clear goods and oil products? Lagos port maybe on pressure making containers queue...




Please don't feed us with wrong facts.

A good way to go.

We need more actions from the present day government.

As long at they will have positive impact on the social economic lives of the citizen.


I second this.

Am interested

Social protection plan...

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
During this afternoons Radio Biafra broadcast, Uche Mefor, the Deputy Director of IPOB, claimed responsibility for the Warri bombings. He said the Igbos are willing, ready and prepared to carry our more bombing attacks if, in his own word, ''Tyrant Buhari does not release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Tomorrow''

Really


Which radio biafra. ..

Never get that one again since ...

Abi they are in another station.

As usual Mr. Tonye is always on point.

I always scroll to read your piece because they are well articulated and historical rich.

I will wait for other folks to comment but I believe this information is a serious food for thought.

Good day.

This your source is incredible...


http://lazyreporta.com/nuc-announces-overall-best-university-in-nigeria/

Lol

I.advised.someone not to pay.

Hmmmmmm

Na wa ooo

I bought it last 75 naira. ..

Gen gen gen.....

Action film.

Unending series begin...

I only pity the innocent people staying in these areas that have never touch 100, 000 naira before in their lives.

Well, baba God Biko ooooo.

zikray:


Are u sure it wasn't u who committed this blonder?

Cant you see the profile?

I did the blunder now.


Lkwd

engrfaruq:


Even police officers on Protective security now wear suits... So lay people like me and u mistake them for SSS.
That guy is no less than a military detail of Dambazau.

Excuse me sir.
Am not a lay man in terms of security details. ....


Polive details wear longer suit. U see them in commandeering styles among the VIPs.

The source of the video proves the authentication of the information.

We have seen a lot around.

AM happy this is in the news.