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FG inaugurates freight services on Lagos-Ibadan cargo Rail

IdanNewd reports that the Minister of Transportation, Saidu Alkali, inaugurated the first cargo movement from the Lagos-Ibadan rail corridor during his first official tour of the rail corridor.

It was gathered that the minister took off from Ebute Meta train station before moving to Apapa for the launch, then traveled to Ibadan with the inaugural freight movement loaded with three coaches of 30 wagons using the 157 km Lagos–Ibadan rail corridor 

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) said it would start with three coaches per day with its Managing Director (MD) noting that the corporation had the capacity to scale up the numbers.

Akeem Adeyemi

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