Easter celebration: Osun offers free train transport for indigenes, others

     

Easter celebration: Osun

offers free train

transport for indigenes,

others

April 17, 2019 

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Osun State government have

concluded arrangements to offer

free train service to its citizens

travelling home from Lagos State for

Easter celebration.

Those travelling from towns on the

route between Lagos State and Osun

State will also benefit from the free

trip as approved by Governor

Adegboyega Oyetola.

It will be at no cost to the travelers.

According to a statement signed by

the Chief Press Secretary to Oyetola,

Mr. Adeniyi Adesina, which was

forwarded to the Nigerian Tribune

in Osogbo on Tuesday, the all-

expenses paid round trip, whose

objective is to give relief, will stop

over at designated train stations in

Ogun and Oyo States.

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According to the schedule of

movement, the train will depart

from the Iddo Terminus in Lagos by

10am on Friday, April 19, with the

expected 6pm arrival time at the

Nelson Mandela Freedom Park Train

Station in Osogbo.

In the reverse movement on

Monday, April 22, the train will

depart from the Nelson Mandela

Freedom Park Train Station in

Osogbo at 10am with the expected

6pm arrival time at Iddo Terminus

in Lagos.

This would be the second time the

Oyetola’s administration n will

provide free train transport for

citizens going home for religious

celebration. The first time was in

December 2018, for people travelling

home for Christmas, barely one

month after the governor was sworn

in.

Large number of people have

benefitted from the Free Train

Movement since it was initiated by

the state in 2011.