On Sunday, a train plying the Warri-Itakpe route derailed somewhere around Ajaokuta in Kogi State. About 178 passengers were stranded but, thankfully, they came to no harm as the Nigerian Railway Commission evacuated them.
On Sunday, a train plying the Warri-Itakpe route derailed somewhere around Ajaokuta in Kogi State. About 178 passengers were stranded but, thankfully, they came to no harm as the Nigerian Railway Corporation evacuated them. The train service along that route has been shut until they carry out necessary repairs. At the time of writing, there has been no official report on why the train derailed.
Never mind that the railway is only one form of infrastructure—and which can hardly survive without the concurrent functioning of other categories of infrastructure like education, health, security, urban management, and so on—but they pat their own backs for getting it done. But given the insecurity problem and mechanical failures we have seen recently, I worry whether it will last. The railway project was built through loans that Nigeria has to repay.
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