President Muhammadu Buhari is about now performing the ground breaking ceremony on the Kaduna-Kano Standard Gauge rail line.
Kaduna, is a very important junction in the standard gauge corridor network that was meant to link the Northern commercial city of Kano to the port city of Lagos on the Western line. It is an extension of the modernisation of the Lagos-Kano standard gauge rail line, and demonstration of the Buhari administration’s commitment to link all state capitals by modern train services before 2023.
The Lagos-Ibadan component of the project, a 157 kilometre project handled by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) with a branchline to Apapa Port, was commissioned on June 10, 2021.
Today’s flag-off ceremony takes place at Zawaciki, in Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano.
President Muhammadu Buhari would be assisted in the ceremony by the Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi.
More details later.