The Federal Government has announced that plans have reached an advanced stage for a three hour high speed train project connecting Lagos and Abuja. This was disclosed by the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, while speaking at the public presentation of a book, ‘Showcasing Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s Monumental Strides: A Third Party Perspective,’ written by the Director-General of Citizens Network For Peace and Development in Nigeria, Mr. Dressmann Preye, in Abuja. Umar appealed to Nigerians to give President Goodluck Jonathan the chance to consolidate on his achievements. The book highlighted areas the Jonathan administration has carried out reforms, to include macroeconomic management strategies; trade and investment policies; infrastructure development; agricultural transformation; oil and gas industry reforms; power and renewable energy; education and health reforms. Senator Umar said the Federal Government had started receiving expression of interests from private firms within and outside the country, adding that the federal government had carried out a number of feasibility studies with the aim of constructing more standard gauge lines across the country and had successfully completed studies in seven new corridors, including Abuja-Lagos high speed train. He said: �
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The consultants, who carried out the feasibility studies have submitted their reports. Part of the report contains the involvement of the private sector to drive the project. This is because we want to develop these lines under public, private partnership arrangements. “We have received a lot of expression of interests even ahead of advertisement for the purpose from various companies in the country and indeed, in other countries of the world. “The idea is that, if we have this in place, the trains can move from Abuja to Lagos, and from Lagos to Abuja in a maximum of three hours.“We are intending to compete favourably with other transportation system in carrying passengers from Abuja to Lagos.
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