The line was intended to bolster a bid for the Commonwealth Games; the games went to Glasgow, but Abuja didn’t adjust its transit plan to better serve residents, and ridership was less than 1,000 people per day.

A light rail system in the capital shut down after less than two years in service.

In July 2018, Muhammadu Buhari, the president of Nigeria at the time, boarded a gleaming new train linking the capital city, Abuja, with its airport. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Buhari hailed the system as “evidence that we are a government that delivers on its promises.”

Five years on, that promise looks empty. Train cars are locked away at a depot. Cavernous stations fully equipped with escalators, ticket offices, cameras and scanners stand empty, overseen by bored security guards. The faux leather couches in the VIP area are covered in bird and bat droppings. “It’s an abandoned project,” says Rowland Ataguba, an adviser to the government on rail strategy.

“Quite clearly there was no plan on how to run the operations before they built it.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-29/nigeria-s-failed-train-shows-how-not-to-build-public-transit?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-africa&utm_content=africa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#xj4y7vzkg

The train in heading in the same direction as Nigeria, "to no where"

Just imagine

Ok That is Nigeria for you

“Quite clearly there was no plan on how to run the operations before they built it.”

Factos!

Funny enough they were constructed with borrowed funds

Ok

One thing is to build while another thing, which is paramount is the maintenance...

While so many Nigerians are hungry, unemployed and children are out of school. Even hospitals are not well-equipped, doctors not well paid, education not adequately funded, power supply is zero. Did they borrow money for this too? How can any sane person support this. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Knockout

Project that was paid for using foreign loans after much noise making 2 years later nobody is using it
Where is the manager of the company
I think serious action should be taken
What the Bleep is this abeg

Alright

Wike is working hard to ensure smooth running

Can someone re-explain?

Uppercut reality/truth!

Imagine the amount that was spent on this project
Only for it to lay in waste and ruins
Nigeria needs to seriously wake up
And we even borrowed money to execute this project smh can you just imagine

That is where Nigeria is heading under a careless regime: NO WHERE.

But under a right leadership, we could have a destination. I have hopes that it can be changed to NOW HERE.

Ok

Who takes train to Abuja airport?

Why leave my house and take an Über to the train station, then take a train to the airport when I can take the Über straight to the airport?

Why will I arrive from Lagos or overseas and start boarding train to a station, only to start looking for another vehicle to take me to my destination, when I can take a car straight there?

These people in government don't know how to source for data to use in developing infrastructure.

To please the people, first find out what the people want.

Wike is working hard to ensure smooth running
It's never too late for us

Who do we blame??

Insult

Ok Naa

Wike is working hard to ensure smooth running
It's never too late for us
Baba Buhari caused it

The APC fools clapped for baba Buhari na

Pahahaha shameless lots

They will start stealing the rails soon

You can only imagine the billions spent on this

Poor planning and corruption is a dangerous mix

The person wey do Nigeria this thing should please have mercy on us.

All
Promises
Canceled

I edit documents and certificate mail me

If Nigeria was a serious country, buhari, Goodwin emefiele, sadiya and others would have been in jail by now.