Adeyinka Aderibigbe
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) on Saturday announced some conditionality to be fulfilled by passengers of all its train services nationwide.
The latest move was sequel to the outbreak of the ravaging coronavirus scourge in the country.
According to a statement by the NRC Deputy Director for Public Relations, Mr. Yakub Mahmood, further information on train services will be made available to train passengers in due course.
Mahmood who had earlier in a statement indicating that the corporation had suspended train services nationwide noted that the management after reviewing the situation had decided to continue to provide train services only if passengers are willing to abide by certain conditionality.
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The conditions according to Mahmood include, “that passengers be willing to provide full names, address, date of birth and means of identification on request at train stations.”
He urged all passengers to cooperate with any other measures put in place to protect them.
The statement with headline “NRC stops passenger services” will become operational as from Monday, March 23, 2020.
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