Nigeria Must Modernise Rail To Reduce Accidents – Shettima

Vice President Kashim Shettima has said the lone mode Nigeria tin support its pb arsenic the logistics hub of Africa is to revive and revitalise the nation’s railway services.

Accordingly, helium called for beardown networking, partnerships, and collaboration among stakeholders, insisting that taking afloat vantage of the galore opportunities successful the railway assemblage is not 1 to beryllium taken lightly.

The vice president, who stated this successful Abuja yesterday, erstwhile helium opened the 2nd International Railway Conference, assured, however, that it was specified a rebirth that inspired railway projects and modernisation nether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.

“Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, the situation up of america is to pb this contention arsenic the logistics hub of Africa by reviving and revitalising our railway services.
We indispensable beryllium conscious of our spot arsenic the anchor of West Africa’s system and location to the continent’s largest colonisation arsenic we hole for the adoption of modern railway infrastructure.

“This awakening inspired projects specified arsenic the Kano–Maradi railway modernization, which opens caller gateways for commercialized nether the African Continental Free Trade Area,” helium said successful a connection by his spokesman, Stanley Nkwocha.

VP Shettima drew attraction to the administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda, which helium said “is besides shaped by the urgent request to trim the load connected roads and highways crossed the country,” conscionable arsenic helium decried decades of over-reliance connected roadworthy transportation, starring “to congestion, accelerated deterioration of infrastructure, and higher mishap rates.”

“Railways connection safer, cheaper, and much environmentally affable alternatives, reducing c emissions and reinforcing our committedness to sustainable development,” helium added.

Senator Shettima, however, did not warrant an casual way to harnessing the imaginable successful the railway sector, conscionable arsenic helium demanded beardown collaboration, networking and confederation among stakeholders.

His words: “But the task of maximising the immense opportunities successful the railway assemblage is not 1 we see easy. It requires networks, partnerships, and robust collaboration with stakeholders.

“This is wherefore our ongoing modernisation projects—Lagos to Kano, Kano to Maradi, and Port Harcourt to Maiduguri—are designed with unfastened doors for backstage assemblage participation. We indispensable guarantee not lone timely completion, but besides sustainability and businesslike utilisation of these projects.”

The vice president restated the steadfast resoluteness of the Tinubu medication to nexus each cities successful Nigeria done railways and roads to heighten industrialisation.

He continued: “His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has demonstrated, clip and again, our nationalist determination to link our cities done roads and railways.

“Our aspiration is for a federation wherever industries tin convey their products to the market, and wherever earthy materials tin determination seamlessly from superior producers to industries without hindrance.”

Declaring the 2nd International Railway Conference open, VP Shettima described the confab arsenic an invaluable level to sermon the astir applicable strategies to execute these objectives.

He implored participants “to instrumentality afloat vantage of this unsocial accidental to prosecute the assets squad and to collectively sharpen the outcomes of the conference.”

The VP applauded the Federal Ministry of Transportation for organising the league successful collaboration with De-Sadel Nigeria Limited and the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, saying the “effort successful reconnecting our partners successful the obstruction manufacture crossed planetary jurisdictions is commendable.”

Earlier, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, said the High-Speed Rail (HSR) task embodies a bold and visionary inaugural and reflects the government’s committedness to the translation of Nigeria’s nationalist assemblage transportation.

He stressed that President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda prioritises transformational infrastructure, noting that the HSR task offers immense opportunities for inclusive maturation and nationalist integration.

For his part, the main big of the lawsuit and curate of Transportation, Senator Said Ahmed Alkali, noted that proscription remains an enabler of economical maturation crossed jurisdictions.

He noted that President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda has accorded peculiar precedence to the proscription sector, resulting successful the support of monolithic projects nationwide.

He cited the caller Federal Executive Council’s (FEC’s) support of the operation of 1 ultra-modern autobus terminal crossed six geopolitical zones successful Nigeria, adding that the improvement volition heighten nationalist information and the ...