{"id":77936,"date":"2025-11-03T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77936"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:36:07","slug":"nrc-suspends-warri-itakpe-train-service-after-derailment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/03\/nrc-suspends-warri-itakpe-train-service-after-derailment\/","title":{"rendered":"NRC Suspends Warri-Itakpe Train Service After Derailment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), has suspended operations on the Warri-Itakpe corridor following the derailment of a train on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at Kilometre 212+8m in Agbor, Delta State, just four days after the route resumed service following months of repair and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, NRC Managing Director, Kayode Opeifa, said two of the train\u2019s seven coaches derailed, but all passengers were safely evacuated with no casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations suggest suspected track vandalism caused the derailment.<\/p>\n<p>Opeifa said train services have been suspended to allow a full security and safety audit before resumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), has suspended operations on the Warri-Itakpe corridor following the derailment of a train on Saturday night. The incident occurred at Kilometre 212+8m in Agbor, Delta State, just four days after the route resumed service following months of repair and maintenance. In a statement on Sunday, NRC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77936","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\/77936","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77938,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77936\/revisions\/77938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}