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Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Comsol: 2:21pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
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 131 Likes 11 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by AceBeauti(f): 2:22pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
Thank you GEJ Nigerians will forever be grateful to you. 301 Likes 22 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by hippyj(m): 2:25pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
let's hope it works. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by OZAOEKPE(f): 2:26pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
THEY WONT BLAME JONATHAN FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT, BUT IF IT IS THE OTHER WAY ROUND THEY WOULD WAIL TILL THY KINGDOM COME? 144 Likes 9 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by ibotic(f): 2:34pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
OZAOEKPE: **** ...did you not read that this project was started during Obasanjo's time chekwu abiama o... we ibos need to think before we write. 332 Likes 19 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Kyase(m): 2:34pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
OZAOEKPE:You think if na Jonathan dey there the train for land naija? The money for don disappear since. All thanks to PmB Sai baba 229 Likes 15 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Kyase(m): 2:36pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
ibotic:Am already crushing on this babe for this. 33 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Kyase(m): 2:38pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
AceBeauti:Ibotic see another one 41 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Nobody: 2:43pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
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. 79 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Kyase(m): 2:47pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
ibotic:This is serious. #flat.heads #aceugli #acebeauti 15 Likes |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by swtdrms(m): 2:52pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
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. 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by obasiken: 2:55pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
God will punish all those that said GEJ never did anything when their leader is yet to flag off a road project. 35 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by kayfra: 2:55pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
Thanks OBJ for the incubation Thanks GEJ for the execution Thanks Buhari for the actualization 163 Likes 13 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Nobody: 3:04pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
Thank you , Buhari. It's your body odour at work. 11 Likes |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by AceBeauti(f): 3:07pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
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. 59 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by jmichlins(m): 3:12pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
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 3 Likes |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by sammyj: 3:21pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
Thank GEJ for what ? For being clueless not to complete the projected timeline slated for 2014. AceBeauti: 21 Likes |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Topestbilly(m): 3:28pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by saint047(m): 3:29pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
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 13 Likes |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by jstbeinhonest(m): 3:29pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
kayfra: Why do most Nigerians forget about Yaradua. 66 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by kennyman2000(m): 3:29pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
Okay |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Sunnycliff(m): 3:30pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
Yet GEJ did nothing....#lyingAPC 10 Likes |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by kelvstenz: 3:30pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
Dats nice |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by RichYoungNigga: 3:30pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
The person who wrote this shiity stuff haven't traveled out of Nigeria. I live in the US and i have an uninterrupted electricity for 11 years, i haven't seen the lights go off. Do you know how light speed trains work ?? They use electricity. Now, i have a few questions for you. Have you enjoyed uninterrupted electricity for straight 2 weeks ?? How will the train run without electricity ?? I guess it will run with some magical powers. Ignorant people 14 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by kulobyno: 3:30pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
Must the op copy a photo of speed train from google 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by OrlandoOwoh(m): 3:30pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
Wailers, where are Jonathan's locomotive engines? 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by meshacha1: 3:31pm On Jan 26, 2016 |
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. 20 Likes 1 Share |
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