Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says passengers will be required to provide their National Identity Number (NIN) before boarding trains from May.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Managing Director of the NRC, Fidet Okhiria in a statement on Thursday, said the NIN would be required to improve passengers’ profiles.
Okhiria, therefore, advised passengers who plan to travel by train to get their NIN ready, adding that this 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.
The NRC boss further disclosed that the Abuja-Kaduna Train Service (AKTS) would resume as soon as possible with additional security measures put in place.
The corporation had recently suspended the Abuja-Kaduna train operations following an attack on passengers by gunmen.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari had directed the “immediate conclusion” of the implementation of the security surveillance and monitoring solution for the rail line.
Similarly, the federal government recently ordered 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.
