PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved a 50 percent cut in land transportation fares from tomorrow 21st December to 4 January 2024 across the country.
The President also approved zero fares for train transportation in all the states of the federation within the same period.
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Mr. Dele Alake disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said that all the logistics for the implementation have been worked out between the Minister of Transportation and the transport unions and luxury bus owners.
According to him, “In recognition of the economic situation of the country, which he is working very hard to turn around, President Tinubu wants Nigerians to be able to travel within Nigeria to wherever they want to go to meet their loved ones without the extra burden of paying exorbitantly for inter-state public transportation,” he said.
“It is in this wise that the Federal Government is announcing, beginning from tomorrow, a special discounted holiday season fare on road transport and zero-fare by rail across Nigeria.
“What this means is that from tomorrow, Nigerians willing to travel can board public transport via minibuses, luxury buses at a 50% discount of current cost and all our train services on the routes the trains currently serve at zero cost to and fro on their travels this holiday season.
“This Presidential initiative is to give succour to the masses. It is on record that the massive don’t patronize airport trapping. The programme is not beyond the affordability of the government.”
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