NRC Officials will No Longer Issue Train Tickets – Amaechi 

The minister of transportation Rotimi Amaechi says the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) will no longer be issuing tickets to train passengers.

He explained that the development was a necessary move to curb corruption and insecurity within the sector.

Amaechi disclosed this when he was presented with the Full Business Case Certificates (FBC) for the Lagos- Ibadan and Itakpe-Warri E-Ticketing service which was presented by Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC).

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He announced that the revenue generated has tripled since the launch of the E-ticketing service.

According him, this new development was necessary to reduce the rate of incessant crime and security breaches within the routes,

He says “Even though we cannot eliminate 100 percent crime and corruption, it will reduce the danger of having to run into security crises.”

Speaking on the impact of the E-ticketing service, Amaechi revealed that the federal government witnessed an increase in revenue from N100 million to N400 million monthly.

“The benefits of the E-Ticketing is that we rose from N100 million to N400 million per month, which is an improvement”, he noted.

However, he stressed that he has informed the NRC not to go further with such services in other to allow the experts do their job.