{"id":74285,"date":"2025-08-27T05:57:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74285"},"modified":"2025-08-27T05:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:57:28","slug":"tinubu-pledges-swift-action-after-abuja-kaduna-train-derailment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/27\/tinubu-pledges-swift-action-after-abuja-kaduna-train-derailment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Pledges Swift Action After Abuja-Kaduna Train Derailment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised prompt action and support following the derailment of an Abuja-Kaduna-bound train on Tuesday, an incident that disrupted one of Nigeria\u2019s busiest passenger rail routes.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on his verified X account, @officialABAT, while on a state visit to Brazil, the President expressed deep sadness over the incident and extended sympathy to injured passengers and their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply saddened by this incident. My heartfelt prayers are with the injured, their families, and all passengers who went through this distressing experience,\u201d Tinubu said.<\/p>\n<p>The President noted that he is receiving continuous updates and awaiting a full briefing to ensure immediate measures are taken to assist victims and strengthen railway safety nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), is already addressing the situation, and necessary steps are being taken to prevent similar occurrences in the future,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The derailment has reignited concerns over Nigeria\u2019s railway infrastructure and passenger safety.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the NRC has begun remedial measures and launched an investigation into the cause of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised prompt action and support following the derailment of an Abuja-Kaduna-bound train on Tuesday, an incident that disrupted one of Nigeria\u2019s busiest passenger rail routes. In a statement posted on his verified X account, @officialABAT, while on a state visit to Brazil, the President expressed deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":74286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-74285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74285","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74287,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74285\/revisions\/74287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}