Train passengers to present NIN before boarding from May – NRC

No passengers will be allowed to enter any train from May this year without presenting their National Identity Number (NIN), the Nigerian Railway Corporation has said.

The Managing Director of the NRC, Fidet Okhiria, disclosed this in a statement, adding that the NIN would be required to improve passenger profile.

Okhiria advised passengers planning to travel by train to get their NIN ready.

This, he said, would also improve rail riders’ safety and security.

“The process of linking passengers to their NIN for improved profiling is ongoing. This layer of passenger screening will commence by May,” he said.

He said the Abuja-Kaduna Train Service (AKTS) would resume as soon as possible with additional security measures put in place.

The corporation had suspended the Abuja-Kaduna train operations following an attack on passengers by gunmen.

President Muhammadu Buhari had directed the “immediate conclusion” of the implementation of the security surveillance and monitoring solution for the rail line.

For security reasons, the Federal Government recently asked the NRC to hand over tickets and passengers’ identification to Secure ID, the company in charge of the e-ticketing platform for the Abuja-Kaduna rail service.