Aftermath derailment: Abuja-Kaduna Train Service resumes operations

…As NRC assures of safety, improved service

By Olasunkanmi Akoni

The Abuja–Kaduna Train Service (AKTS) officially resumed operations connected Wednesday, October 1, 2025, pursuing weeks of intensive inspections, information checks, and unit grooming by the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC).

The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of NRC, Dr. Kayode Opeifa, joined passengers and unit onboard the inaugural travel aft the August mishap. His beingness was to personally witnesser the resumption thrust and assistance rebuild nationalist assurance successful the service.

The archetypal bid departed from Idu Station successful Abuja, stopped astatine Kubwa to prime up passengers, and successfully arrived astatine Rigasa Station successful Kaduna. A instrumentality travel was besides scheduled the aforesaid day, signaling the afloat restoration of rider bid operations connected the corridor.

Speaking with journalists aft accomplishment astatine Rigasa, Opeifa expressed restitution and gave glory to God for the corporation’s betterment period. He stressed the cardinal relation of a modern railway strategy successful fostering nationalist unity and development, noting that President Bola Tinubu’s medication has invested heavy successful obstruction infrastructure crossed the country.

The NRC brag reiterated his committedness to transforming the corp by prioritizing the completion of ongoing projects, optimizing existing nationalist obstruction assets, rehabilitating each serviceable rolling stocks, expanding services, improving lawsuit experience, and modernizing operations on the AKTS corridor.

He further disclosed that a dedicated Customer Service Department has been established to promptly code rider concerns and heighten work delivery.

On safety, Opeifa reassured passengers and unit of the corporation’s unwavering committedness to information and welfare. In summation to the disposable beingness of constabulary and subject unit on the corridor and astatine stations, helium noted that discreet but effectual information measures had besides been enactment successful place.

Opeifa reaffirmed his determination to presumption the NRC arsenic a world-class, passenger-friendly work supplier susceptible of driving socio-economic maturation done modern, safe, and businesslike obstruction transport systems nationwide.

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