The Lagos – Kano train service will resume on Friday, August 13, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has announced.
The Regional District Manager, Northern District of the NRC, Mr Isma’il Adebiyi disclosed this on Sunday in Zaria, Kaduna state.
He said the train would leave Lagos on Friday evening and arrive in Kano on Sunday morning.
The manager said the corporation had concluded plans to restart the Kaduna to Kafanchan and Kaduna to Kano train service before the end of August.
He within the next two months, the NRC would rehabilitate 100 wagons to further strengthen the rail sector.
Mr Adebiyi said 21 of the rehabilitated wagons would be used in the northern district of the rail service comprising Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Yobe, Katsina and Zamfara states.
He said the Kano to Nguru (Yobe State) train service was still active and that plans were at an advanced stage to enhance the traffic on the route by returning coaches that were dropped because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said the Minna-Kaduna rail mass transit had also been active for the past one month and that patronage was increasing on every trip.
