Yuletide: Transport companies, routes to get Tinubu’s 50% cut on fares

In response to concerns about growing transportation expenses, President Bola Tinubu recently announced a 50% discount for interstate travel on 28 sumptuous bus routes.
Additionally, the president approved 100% train fare reimbursement for Nigerians who wished to travel to other parts of the country to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
To be clearer, President Bola Tinubu’s personal assistant for communications and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, revealed the routes that were selected to benefit from this subsidy.
Here’s a full list of transport companies that are part of this scheme:
1. GIG (God is Good)
2. Chisco Transport
3. Young Shall Grow
4. God Bless Ezenwata
5. Area Motor
Onanuga provided an update today that the scheme would be kick starting immediately, and that two God is good locations have launched programme.
Here’s a list of the 28 routes to enjoy the 50% fare subsidy:
Lagos-Kano, Lagos-Abuja, Lagos-Kaduna-Zaria, Lagos-Jos, Lagos-Enugu, Lagos-Onitsha, Lagos-Owerri, Lagos-Aba, Lagos-Abakaliki, Lagos-Nsukka, Lagos-Uyo, Lagos-Port Harcourt, Onitsha-Kano and Onitsha-Lagos.
Others include Onitsha-Jos, Onitsha-Abuja, Onitsha-Sokoto, Onitsha-Gombe, Onitsha-Zakibiam, Port Harcourt-Owerri-Aba-Kano, Aba-Owerri-Abuja, Aba-Lagos, Abuja-Sokoto.
Abuja-Lagos, Abuja-Onitsha-Owerri-Port Harcourt, Abuja-Enugu/Abakaliki, Abuja-Gombe and Abuja-Kano.
The Federal Government had on Wednesday announced a 50 per cent reduction in public transport fares for Nigerians.
This development was announced by the Minister of Solid Minerals, Dele Alake, during a press conference on the presidential intervention on public transportation to celebrate the yuletide season in Abuja, the state capital.
Hoeever, he noted that President Bola Tinubu approved of the gesture in his demonstration of his love for Nigerians, adding that the move is allow Nigerians 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.
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