The Federal Government has said that it will soon increase the number of trains plying the Abuja-Kaduna route.
This, it said, would enable it meet the target of the availability of a train per hour before the end of 2019.
The Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, Mr Freeborn Okhiria, made this known on Thursday on the occasion of the activities of the Belt and Road Initiative’s celebration to mark 1,000 days of smooth operations of the rail system in Nigeria in Abuja.
His words: “People are complaining that we are not providing enough service.
“We are promising them that we will increase the number of trains we run before the end of the year; we should be able to target one train per hour.
“We have already ordered the coaches and those ones are going to be different from the ones we have.”
He added that the government was already creating an e-ticket system to make the process of boarding easy.
“As we speak about three companies are in the final stage with ICRC because it is going to involve a lot of money, and we do not have the money to do it.
“We need to have the hardware to make sure we protect our earnings and protect the passengers using the e-ticketing because we have to have a barrier that allows a genuine ticket holder to access the platform and exit the station.
“If we do not put the (proper) system in place electronically, a passenger can buy a ticket to Kubwa and get to Kaduna if care is not taken. So we have to consider all that, and it is being developed,” he added.
