{"id":4542,"date":"2021-06-10T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2021-06-10T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:53:12","slug":"buhari-flags-off-lagos-ibadan-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/2021\/06\/10\/buhari-flags-off-lagos-ibadan-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari flags off Lagos-Ibadan rail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has flagged off the commercial operations of Lagos \u2013 Ibadan railway to transport both passengers and freight and the backbone that can transform industrial and economic activity.<br>The rail, he said, in Lagos on Thursday, is another milestone in the drive to revitalize the railway system.<br>\u201cThis vital line establishes an end-to-end logistic supply chain in railway transport within its short corridor, Lagos \u2013 Ibadan, as goods to the hinterland would now be transported by rail directly from the Apapa port Quayside straight to the Inland Container Depot located in Ibadan from where it can be distributed to other parts of the country.\u2019\u2019<br>Buhari said that the project is clear recognition of the challenges posed to economic growth by the absence of strong and effective infrastructure.<br>\u201cWe have in the rail sector, further to other ongoing railway infrastructure projects, embarked on the completion of the outstanding segment of the Lagos \u2013 Kano railway, which is Ibadan \u2013 Kano<br>\u201cThe Lagos \u2013 Kano railway project when completed will link the Kano \u2013 Maradi line at Kano and a rail link from the Nigeria southern ports of Lagos to Maradi in the Niger Republic will be achieved.<br>\u201cThe connection through rail would position Nigerian ports as the choice for the import and export business of the people of the landlocked Niger Republic&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/buhari-flags-off-lagos-ibadan-rail\/\">TO CONTINUE READING CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has flagged off the commercial operations of Lagos \u2013 Ibadan railway to transport both passengers and freight and the backbone that can transform industrial and economic activity.The rail, he said, in Lagos on Thursday, is another milestone in the drive to revitalize the railway system.\u201cThis vital line establishes an end-to-end logistic supply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4544,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions\/4544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}