Remember the ticket-hoarding incident by officials of the Abuja-Kaduna train station in January this year? Such ugly incidents may well be a thing of the past if the soon to be introduced e-ticket option goes very well.
According to BusinessDay, anonymous sources inside the NRC who declined to disclose their identity stated that the baring any technical hitches; this month may witness the setting up of functional web-based e-ticketing platforms for passenger trains in the country.
It would be recalled that two months ago, Fidet Okhiria, Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) said the organisation would commence web-based ticketing nationwide this month to tackle the challenge of racketeering in stations.
Okhiria, who disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja, said NRC has advertised for capable firms to handle the project. “We want to get a secured backbone to be handled by secured company. I understand the need for cyber security, so latest by end of March it will commence nationwide, and we are presently doing presentations’’.
The managing director disclosed that railway management have gotten so many companies showing interest in response to an advertorial for firms to declare their interest.
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