To further enhance movement of goods and passengers along Abuja-Kaduna rail route, the Federal Government on Tuesday announced plans to purchase four new locomotives before the end of August, 2017.
Speaking during the inspection of the Kaduna Inland Dry Port in Kaduna, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi said: “The plan of the government is to ensure that the Abuja- Kaduna rail serve Nigerians better and movement be more regular.
“By July, August we will introduce three to four other locomotives to enhance the service. We know we are having challenges with the rail, the initial projection was that, we are going to deploy 100 locomotives to the country but when they made assessment of the entire narrow gauge in Nigeria they found out that even 70 was going to be too much.
