BREAKING: Tinubu departs Abuja for Lagos to spend Christmas and New Year holidays

He said, “In the spirit of Christmas and end of the year festivities President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in another demonstration of his love for Nigerians has approved that the federal government should intervene to bring down the cost of public transportation to allow our compatriots who want to travel to visit their loved ones and hometown to do so without stress and extra burden posed by high cost transport around this period.

“President Tinubu wants Nigerians to be able to travel within Nigeria to wherever they want to go to meet their loved ones without extra burden of paying exorbitantly for interstate public transportation.

“It is in this wise that the President is announcing through us that beginning from tomorrow, December 21, Nigerians willing to travel can board public transport via mini buses, luxury buses at 50 per cent discount of current cost and all our train services on the route the trains currently serve at zero cost to and fro for their travels this holiday season.”

The government later listed five transport firms for the implementation of its 50 percent reduction in interstate transport fares and free train rides for Nigerians.

The Special Adviser on Information & Strategy to the President, Bayo Onanuga, in a post on his X (formerly Twitter) handle on Thursday, listed the transport firms as – GIG (God is Good), Chisco Transport, Young Shall Grow, God Bless Ezenwata and Area Motor.