{"id":23584,"date":"2020-01-02T21:07:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23584"},"modified":"2020-01-02T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:07:32","slug":"abuja-kaduna-train-not-attacked-by-gunmen-nrc-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23584","title":{"rendered":"Abuja-Kaduna train not attacked by gunmen &#8211; NRC Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Managing Director of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Fidet Okhiria, has assured Nigerians of the corporation\u2019s commitment to the safety of passengers and train along the Abuja-Kaduna Train Service (AKTS).<br \/>\nMr Okhiria told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja that NRC\u2019s priority was to ensure safe transportation of all passengers to their destinations.<br \/>\nHe denied claims by some national dailies that a train conveying passengers to Abuja from Kaduna was attacked by suspected gunmen.<br \/>\n\u201cThis news is not correct. What happened according to the police escorts on the train is that a stone was thrown at the train by some boys, which affected only the window glass of coach SP4.<br \/>\n<strong>READ ALSO:\u00a0<a class=\"LinkSuggestion__Link-sc-1mdih4x-2 jZPuuT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/entertainment\/travels\/354631-china-opens-starfish-shaped-airport-could-be-worlds-busiest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China opens starfish-shaped airport, could be world\u2019s busiest<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cNigerians should not panic as the news of the suspected attack is false and NRC is doing everything possible to ensure the safety of passengers,\u201d Mr Okhiria said.<br \/>\nSome national dailies had reported that armed men suspected to be kidnappers on Thursday morning attacked an Abuja-bound train with guns and other weapons.<br \/>\nThe report alleged that the train, which left the Rigasa train station in Kaduna, at around 10 a.m. was attacked a few kilometres to Katari, about 70 kilometres to Abuja.<br \/>\nBy <strong>NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Managing Director of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Fidet Okhiria, has assured Nigerians of the corporation\u2019s commitment to the safety of passengers and train along the Abuja-Kaduna Train Service (AKTS). Mr Okhiria told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja that NRC\u2019s priority was to ensure safe transportation of all passengers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[659,660,661],"class_list":["post-23584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-gunmen","tag-nrc","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}