Naija... It's rather fair they apologized...

NaijadrivaCars:
The Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, has expressed regret over the failure of the last locomotive train scheduled to convey passengers from Abuja-Kaduna on Tuesday.

Naijadriva earlier reported that on Tuesday, hundreds of passengers trekked to the Rigasa Station after the train broke down some meters to the terminal.

Yakub Mahmood, NRC’s Deputy Director, Public Relations, said this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja.



he said.

Mr Mahmood, however announced that the uninterrupted train services between the Abuja-Kaduna route had since resumed accordingly.

Source: https://naijadriva./2019/11/28/nrc-speaks-on-abuja-kaduna-train-breakdown-apologises-to-passengers/

This is what you get when you overuse machines without proper maintenance. What if it had happened midway?

The train is already faulty when majority of us are yet to know it's has started transporting. naija we hail thee

eleojo23:
I am not surprised that the train broke down...

The train route has been experiencing heavy traffic of recent since people no longer want to travel by road thanks to kidnappers

It is likely that they've not taken out time to service the trains due to the heavy traffic

People are still travelling by road every day

the way nairalanders are commenting is baffling....ithey comment as if train doesn't breakdown in other parts of the world

ArcSEMPECJ:
Are you surprised as a Nigerian Citizen!....

So Sir, your apology was accepted before the rail project started.....

Meanwhile the rail should be connected to other parts of the country before the project becomes a Northern Idea and benefits

are u sure u aren't from cave?...haven't u seems heavy construction of railways in southern Nigeria?

Gentle034:
Just Imagine nonsense

u man train and other vehicles aren't supposed to break down?...British airways just had engine failure mid air yesterday

thundafire:
When Chinese sell refurbished trains wat do u expect and c dey high speed train dey remove in der country anyway expect anything from Nigeria cs no head will roll

even high speed train break down too... British airways lost one engine midair....no one is perfect

My only concern is why is it that most of the affairs of Nigeria re always headed by those from a particular region? The most funny thing is these same set of people gain admission with very low scores, get employed through quota system yet they keep heading every public offices

Train wey want persin to stand pass siddon go make an waka pass station make them repair an add seats

jayson87:
stop buying CHINA. STOP IT!

And you are posting on china phone.

Welcome to nigeria

ironheart:
A one off situation, a more dignifying thing to do is to refund the passengers or give them a free ride

And when it happens again

Yeye people. Jonathan built train for them. Simple to maintain it they can't

GrandMufti:


Loco what?

i
Sam Loco

GrandMufti:


Loco what?

Locomotive

They bought scrap from China at 1000 times the amount of a new one... All hail amaechi and buhari

mu2sa2:
And you are posting on china phone.

Lol, Nice one. All phones are made in china, including your iphone.. start buying china

johnmattew:
even high speed train break down too... British airways lost one engine midair....no one is perfect

no one is perfect but u rarely hear it unlike ours

Obiaksnews:
So that the services would become monopolized by a few ? everything can not be privatized, essential services such as these needs to be handled by the government for easy accessibility and affordability.

A train ride is not an essential service.

AmehHAS:


And when it happens again

do same thing over and over. The thought of compensation and lose of revenue will make them take maintenance serious

A train ride falls under transportation, and transportation is one of the essential sectors of Nigeria. Speaking essentially, let me put it into perspective for you, for a country and a mega city which wishes to develop, it is important it has good rail network. If there are good train networks in Lagos today, 50% of traffic congestion would be solved. Now talking about privatization, it is not a bad idea, because it will help drive efficiency, but right now i think it ought to be left to the government to develop and build rail tracks first and as time goes on it can then allow private trains operate on government tracks, just the way there are private airline companies and road transport companies. that way, government still maintains majority control.

Xisnin:

A train ride is not an essential service.

Exactly my tots few days ago on the train that plies Aba to PH.
Leaders make una dey do solid things wey go last na!

Obiaksnews:
A train ride falls under transportation, and transportation is one of the essential sectors of Nigeria. Speaking essentially, let me put it into perspective for you, for a country and a mega city which wishes to develop, it is important it has good rail network. If there are good train networks in Lagos today, 50% of traffic congestion would be solved. Now talking about privatization, it is not a bad idea, because it will help drive efficiency, but right now i think it ought to be left to the government to develop and build rail tracks first and as time goes on it can then allow private trains operate on government tracks, just the way there are private airline companies and road transport companies. that way, government still maintains majority control.

As long as there are reasonable alternatives, it is not essential.
Railways stations were dead for several years, that didn't cause a calamity.
Some states don't even have any rail tracks.
You talk about "important". But important is not essential.

The government currently subsidies rail transport which shouldn't be so.
The government may continue building tracks but the management should be handed
over to the private who can make it profitable.

Only apology, sack somebody pls!!!

I understand why you would term " Trains ride or Rail way services" as not essential because we live in a country like Nigeria where we get the barest minimum and make do with it. Imagine what would happen in a city like New york or Beijing if all the train stations are to go on strike. The city would be on turmoil. More than half of the work force in these cities depend on trains to get to work every day. In new york an average of 5.7 million people use the sub way per day. Now imagine if this option is taken away from them and they have to make do with roads, do you know the chaos that would cause ?

Xisnin:

As long as there are reasonable alternatives, it is not essential.
Railways stations were dead for several years, that didn't cause a calamity.
Some states don't even have any rail tracks.
You talk about "important". But important is not essential.

The government currently subsidies rail transport which shouldn't be so.
The government may continue building tracks but the management should be handed
over to the private who can make it profitable.

Obiaksnews:
I understand why you would term " Trains ride or Rail way services" as not essential because we live in a country like Nigeria where we get the barest minimum and make do with it. Imagine what would happen in a city like New york or Beijing if all the train stations are to go on strike. The city would be on turmoil. More than half of the work force in these cities depend on trains to get to work every day. In new york an average of 5.7 million people use the sub way per day. Now imagine if this option is taken away from them and they have to make do with roads, do you know the chaos that would cause ?

The fact that you had to leave Nigeria to support your position shows that I was right to begin with.
Rail travel is not an essential service in Nigeria. For the road travel that is essential, the government is
not even a major stakeholder.
The only way forward is to privatize the Nigerian railway.
The subsidy saved can be used for better development projects.

Seems you don't get me, i am not saying Nigerian can't do without trains for now, but i am saying for Nigeria to develop and for we to have mega cities then we need effective rail way systems. That's why i used Lagos as a case study in the first place. People lose millions of man hours in traffic every week in Lagos because there are no other major alternatives to transportation. Talking about privatization, i already made my point clear on that. privatization is not a bad idea, but i doubt any private firm would want to invest in our rail way systems for now when we don't even have complete tracks linking the country at the moment, do you know how much it cost the government to build tracks from one state to the other ? That's why i said for now let the Government continue handling the railway system and when it becomes standardized enough then private investors can be allowed to come in. for now there are no platforms the private firms would operate on.

Xisnin:

The fact that you had to leave Nigeria to support your position shows that I was right to begin with.
Rail travel is not an essential service in Nigeria. For the road travel that is essential, the government is
not even a major stakeholder.
The only way forward is to privatize the Nigerian railway.
The subsidy saved can be used for better development projects.

Is it not Naija again? Please it is normal here where we lack maintenance culture.

Joystark:


Locomotive