{"id":80848,"date":"2025-12-26T06:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80848"},"modified":"2025-12-26T06:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:49:43","slug":"abuja-kaduna-rail-service-deteriorates-weeks-after-resumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/26\/abuja-kaduna-rail-service-deteriorates-weeks-after-resumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja-Kaduna Rail Service Deteriorates Weeks After Resumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barely weeks after the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), resumed operations on the Abuja-Kaduna rail line, commuters are grappling with persistent delays and operational inefficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>Train services on the corridor resumed on October 1, 2025, after a one-month suspension, but passengers say punctuality and service delivery have steadily worsened since then.<\/p>\n<p>The route was suspended on August 26, 2025, following a derailment at Asham Station shortly after departure from Abuja, with over 500 passengers on board. Some passengers sustained minor injuries in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The National Safety and Investigation Bureau (NSIB), later attributed the derailment to poor maintenance, damaged track sleepers and a faulty switch mechanism, partly caused by vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau revealed that damaged sleepers were patched rather than properly repaired, while a manually operated switch secured with a point clip failed, leading to the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Following repairs and safety checks, the NRC announced the resumption of services and said it had refunded 512 of the 583 affected passengers.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite assurances of improved safety and efficiency, commuters say the rail service has continued to fall short of expectations, raising concerns about reliability on the busy Abuja-Kaduna corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Barely weeks after the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), resumed operations on the Abuja-Kaduna rail line, commuters are grappling with persistent delays and operational inefficiencies. Train services on the corridor resumed on October 1, 2025, after a one-month suspension, but passengers say punctuality and service delivery have steadily worsened since then. The route [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80848","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\/80848","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=80848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80850,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80848\/revisions\/80850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}