The Nigerian Railway Corporation on Monday confirmed a passenger train crushed a beggar to death at Muslim area of Lagos.
Browsing: Jerry Oche
Some transport operators in Lagos State on Thursday said they were not part of the arrangement with the Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers to reduce transport fares during the February 23 elections.
The Nigerian Railway Corporation says it has so far transported no fewer than 2,500 passengers free of charge on the Lagos-Abeokuta route with the new Standard Gauge line.
The Nigerian Railway Corporation says it transported 260 passengers free daily with the new Standard Gauge from Lagos to Abeokuta.
The Nigerian Railway Corporation has said that there is a chance for residents of Abeokuta in Ogun to now work in Lagos with the new standard gauge rail line.
A total of 1,855,357 commuters traveled by train within Lagos District of Nigerian Railway Corporation in 2018, the District Manager, Jerry Oche, has said.
The Nigerian Railway Corporation says there will be no level crossings where moving trains and vehicles would cross paths on the new Lagos-Ibadan Standard gauge rail line.
Jerry Oche, the Railway District Manager of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Lagos disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Lagos.
Agbede said: “We are an affiliate of the NLC, we shall obey its directives. So we have no choice than to join the strike anytime we’re called upon to do so,” Agbede told the transport correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeri in Lagos.”
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that large turnout of passengers was also witnessed on Sunday when the exercise began for this year’s Eld-el-Kabir celebrations.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the huge number of passengers who turned out for the free ride were more than the available coaches.
An eyewitness, Raji Oladimeji, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the accident occurred when the bus driver was trying to make U-turn on the rail line.
The NRC Lagos State Railway District Manager, Jerry Oche, gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
Jerry Oche, the NRC’s District Manager for Lagos, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday that efforts had been put in place to block all the illegal level crossings in Lagos, to enhance safety.
He also said that new strategies had been evolved by the Lagos District of the NRC to prevent accidents across various rail lines and level crossings in the district.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that more than 1,000 passengers benefited from the free train ride, which the governor usually provides on the eve of Muslim and Christian festivals
He said miscreants had formed the habit of riding on roof top of train and causing mayhem on innocent passengers, making train ride insecure
Oche said that the hoodlums were arrested by a combined team of the Railway Police, the Lagos State Police Command, the NRC Task Force and Man-O-War personnel