The Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, has said that the corporation will begin six train trips daily on the Standard Gauge Train across board in 2024.

Okhiria who disclosed this yesterday, said that train was meant to be operating 24 hours, but the present situation in the country had reduced the turnaround time.

The commission lists the six trips as Lagos-Ibadan, Warri-Itakpe and Abuja-Kaduna, which means the trips will be three times to and three times fro, making six trips in a day.

Okhiria who acknowledged that price of commodities would reduce drastically with the freight train operating across the country, says the new trips will commence before the second quarter of 2024, while the railway commission is optimistic of bringing back passenger and freight train from Port-Harcourt to Aba, Lagos to Kano and Kaduna because of the dry ports, in the first quarter of 2024.