{"id":58110,"date":"2024-12-16T16:53:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58110"},"modified":"2024-12-16T16:53:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:53:17","slug":"tinubu-approves-free-train-rides-for-christmas-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/16\/tinubu-approves-free-train-rides-for-christmas-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Approves Free Train Rides for Christmas, New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has approved free nationwide train services for Nigerians from December 20, 2024, to January 5, 2025, to ease transportation costs during the festive season.<br \/>\nThe Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, announced the development while addressing State House correspondents in Abuja.<br \/>\nHe emphasized the initiative\u2019s alignment with the President\u2019s commitment to supporting vulnerable citizens during high-traffic periods.<br \/>\n\u201cAs we did last year, there will be free train service to all Nigerians from December 20 up until January 5, free train service nationwide.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is consistent with the President\u2019s desire to cushion the effect of transportation, especially for the most vulnerable Nigerians,\u201d Idris stated.<br \/>\nIdris highlighted that similar measures were implemented during last year\u2019s Christmas and Sallah celebrations, reinforcing the administration\u2019s resolve to provide relief during major festivities.<br \/>\nThe initiative will allow Nigerians to travel across the country without incurring transportation costs, offering a reprieve during the busy yuletide period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu President Bola Tinubu has approved free nationwide train services for Nigerians from December 20, 2024, to January 5, 2025, to ease transportation costs during the festive season. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, announced the development while addressing State House correspondents in Abuja. He emphasized the initiative\u2019s alignment with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58112,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58110\/revisions\/58112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}