President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday announced a 50 percent cut as a discount for luxury bus travellers and train services on all routes in the country beginning tomorrow, Thursday.
This, Tinubu said, is aimed to provide succour to citizens who are heavily weighed down by the prevailing high cost of transportation commuting across the country, especially during the yuletide.
Announcing this at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Minister of Solid Minerals, Dele Alake said, “From tomorrow, Nigerians wishing to embark on inter-state travel to any part of the country from Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Enugu, Port Harcourt, Owerri, Ibadan, Akure, Maiduguri, Sokoto and other major inter-state transportation hubs will be able to do so at half the cost.
“The Federal Government under the leadership of President Tinubu is working very hard to make sure Nigerians have a memorable and happy holiday season.”
He explained that the presidential intervention is to bring down the cost of public transportation to allow the citizens who want to travel to visit their loved ones and hometowns to do so without stress and the extra burden imposed by the high cost of transport around this period.
Alake who is the Chairman of the 6-man Interministerial Committee on Presidential Intervention, further explained that “the President is well aware of the recent increase in cost of inter-state transportation and even for air travel.
“Traditionally, our people love to travel during Christmas and end of year to be with families and friends and this has been the practice for ages.”
