FG identifies 5 transport companies, routes for the 50% fare cut operations

The Federal Government has identified five transport companies that would be involved in operating the 50% transport fares reduction ordered by President Bola Tinubu during the Christmas and New Year holidays.

The Minister of Solid Minerals, Dele Alake, had in a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, disclosed the presidential intervention by President Tinubu directing 50% fares reduction on roads transport between Thursday, December 21, 2023 and Thursday, January 4, 2024.

Thereafter, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, identified the transport companies patronized by the federal government for the 50% fares reduction operations, including the routes to be covered across the country, from the South to the North.

According to Bayo Onanuga, the transportation companies for the scheme are:

God Is Good ( GIG)

Chisco Transport

Young Shall Grow

God Bless Ezenwata

Area Motor.

The routes include:

Lagos – Kanο
Lagos – Abuja
Lagos – Jos
Lagos – Enugu
Lagos – Onitsha
Lagos – Owerri
Lagos – Aba
Lagos – Abakaliki
Lagos – Nsukka
Lagos – Uyo
Lagos-Kaduna-Zaria
Lagos-PH

Onitsha-Kano

Onisha-Lagos

Onisha-Jos

Onisha-Abuja

Onisha-Sokoto

Onisha-Gombe

Onisha- Zakibiam

Ph-Owerri-Aba-Kano

Aba-Owerri- Abj

Aba-Lagos

Abuja-Sokoto

Abuja-Lagos

Abuja-Onitsha- Owerri – Port Harcourt

Abuja-Enugu/Abakaliki

Abuja-Gombe

Abuja-Kano