{"id":27870,"date":"2020-07-26T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T15:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=27870"},"modified":"2020-07-26T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T15:51:09","slug":"abuja-kaduna-train-service-resumes-july-29-amaechi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/abuja-kaduna-train-service-resumes-july-29-amaechi","title":{"rendered":"Abuja-Kaduna train service resumes July 29 \u2014 Amaechi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Saturday said the Abuja-Kaduna rail service would resume on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi stated this on Saturday during a test run on 10 new coaches recently deployed on the route.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there has been pressure from several quarters to resume the railway service before Sallah with all COVID-19 safety protocols and guidelines by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 in place.<\/p>\n<p>The minister, who spoke through his media office, said, \u201cWe will resume the Abuja-Kaduna train service on Wednesday, July 29.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the fare, Amaechi said after due considerations, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), agreed that changes should be made.<\/p>\n<p>He added that economy and business class had been reviewed to N3,000 and N6,000, respectively, because of the reduced number of passengers that would be on the train.<\/p>\n<p>The minister, earlier, stated that passengers flouting the regulations would not be allowed on the trains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Saturday said the Abuja-Kaduna rail service would resume on Wednesday. Amaechi stated this on Saturday during a test run on 10 new coaches recently deployed on the route. According to him, there has been pressure from several quarters to resume the railway service before Sallah with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[250,1451],"class_list":["post-27870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-amaechi","tag-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Abuja-Kaduna train service resumes July 29 \u2014 Amaechi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Saturday said the Abuja-Kaduna rail service would resume on Wednesday.Amaechi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/abuja-kaduna-train-service-resumes-july-29-amaechi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abuja-Kaduna train service resumes July 29 \u2014 Amaechi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Saturday said the Abuja-Kaduna rail service would resume on Wednesday.Amaechi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/abuja-kaduna-train-service-resumes-july-29-amaechi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-26T15:51:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Amaechi-Umana-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"550\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"322\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/abuja-kaduna-train-service-resumes-july-29-amaechi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/abuja-kaduna-train-service-resumes-july-29-amaechi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Abuja-Kaduna train service resumes July 29 \u2014 Amaechi\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-26T15:51:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/abuja-kaduna-train-service-resumes-july-29-amaechi\"},\"wordCount\":165,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/abuja-kaduna-train-service-resumes-july-29-amaechi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Amaechi-Umana-2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Amaechi\",\"COVID-19.\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/abuja-kaduna-train-service-resumes-july-29-amaechi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/abuja-kaduna-train-service-resumes-july-29-amaechi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/abuja-kaduna-train-service-resumes-july-29-amaechi\",\"name\":\"Abuja-Kaduna train service resumes July 29 \u2014 Amaechi - 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