President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned the $1.457 billion Abuja-Kaduna rail services.
The President at the commissioning at Idu Station in Abuja on Tuesday said that the federal government would link all states and commercial centres in the country with rail lines.
The President later took a train ride from Idu to Kubwa, a suburb of Abuja.
The railway line was one of the infrastructural projects of the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
The one hundred and eighty-six kilometre line was one of the infrastructural projects of the Goodluck Jonathan administration in partnership with the Chinese government as part of a wider project to modernise Nigeria’s decrepit rail network.
Trains will carry passengers and cargo at speeds of up to a hundred and fifty kilometres an hour and the journey will take two hours. Many people who work in Abuja commute from Kaduna because of the high cost of living in the capital.
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