The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS said that rail passenger traffic dropped in the first quarter of this year, compared to the same period in 2018.
The Rail Transportation Data said that over seven hundred and twenty three people traveled by rail in the first quarter of this year, compared to seven hundred and forty eight people, who traveled in the same period last year.
The Bureau said there was also decline in the volume of goods and cargo moved by rail in the first quarter of 2019. It said that a total of more than fifty four thousand tonnes of cargo were moved by rail in the first quarter of this year, compared to the seventy nine thousand carried in the first quarter of 2018.
Revenue generated from passengers in the first quarter of 2019 was put at five hundred and twenty. seventy nine million naira as against five hundred and seven point forty nine million naira in the first quarter of 2018.
Similarly, revenue generated from goods/cargo in first quarter, 2019 was put at one hundred and two point fifty eight million naira as against eighty four point forty million naira in the first quarter of 2018.
