NRC grants Lagos permanent licence to operate Red Line Rail

The Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, has issued a imperishable operating licence to the Lagos State Government for the cognition of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit, LRMT, Red Line, a determination regarded arsenic a large milestone successful Nigeria’s railway assemblage and a boost for authorities information successful obstruction transportation.

Speaking during the presumption ceremonial on Tuesday, the Managing Director of the NRC, Kayode Opeifa, described the improvement arsenic a important departure from the corporation’s 128-year monopoly implicit railway operations successful the country.

According to him, though the NRC would proceed to execute its statutory responsibilities, the corp was aligning with planetary champion practices by opening the assemblage to aggregate operators wrong a regulated obstruction system.

Opeifa explained that the imperishable licence was presented to the Lagos State Government done the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, aft the palmy implementation of a impermanent operating licence earlier granted nether a Track Sharing Agreement.

He said the support officially authorises LAMATA to run services on the shared obstruction corridor successful enactment with the agreement, portion besides empowering the Lagos State Government to negociate further obstruction systems successful accordance wit...