President Bola Tinubu has appointed God is Good Motors (GIGM), Chisco Transport, The Young Shall Grow Motors, God Bless Ezenwata Motors and Area Motors as approved carriers for the federal government’s subsidised Yuletide season transport fares on 25 major routes across the country.
The subsidised fare regime begins today and the government says it’s targeting five million commuters as beneficiaries.
The routes, according to the Presidency, are:
1. Lagos – Kano
2. Lagos – Abuja
3. Lagos – Kaduna
4. Lagos – Jos
5. Lagos – Enugu
6. Lagos – Onitsha
7. Lagos – Owerri
8. Lagos – Aba
9. Lagos – Abakaliki
10. Lagos – Nsukka
11. Lagos – Uyo
12. Lagos – Port Harcourt
13. Onitsha – Kano
14. Onitsha – Lagos
15. Onitsha – Jos
16. Onitsha – Abuja
17. Onitsha – Sokoto
18. Onitsha – Gombe
19. Onitsha – Zakibiam
20. PH-Owerri-Aba-Kano
21. Aba-Owerri-Abj
22. Aba – Lagos
23. Abuja – Sokoto
24, Abuja -Lagos
25. Abuja – Onitsha -Owerri – Port Harcourt
26. Abuja – Enugu/Abakaliki
27. Abuja – Gombe
28. Abuja – Kano
*The approved routes
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development and chairman of the Presidential inter-ministerial committee on subsidised Yuletide Inter-state transport, Dr. Dele Alake, had released the routes for the 50% discount on road transport.
He had said that the subsidy was applicable to transportation on 22 major routes across the country from 21st December 2023 has been finalised.
It will also be recalled that Dr. Alake in the company of Minister of Transportation, Saidu Alkali; Information and National Orientation Minister, Mohammed Idris and Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga had announced on Wednesday afternoon a Presidential intervention to reduce the cost of inter-state road transport by 50% while commuting on railways will be free from 21st December 2023 to 4th January, 2024.
