Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says Kano State will house the biggest rail station in the nation because it will integrate 2 railway.

Amaechi mentioned this when a delegation from Kano State, led by Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, visited him in Abuja to discuss the rail and Inland Dry Port (IDP) in the state.

The minister stated, “We have two significant tasks we wish to do in Kano, the first being the basic gauge from Kano to Kaduna.

“We are applying to the Kano State Government to offer us land to construct the greatest station in Nigeria. It is the biggest station since we are integrating 2 rail lines.

“The very first is the Kano-Maradi, which will be empty in Kano and then the 2nd one is Kano– Kaduna, which will also be empty in Kano.

“Don’t forget the station we are integrating in Kano will be the station that will take passengers from Lagos to Kano.

“If you combine Kano-Maradi and Lagos-Kano, you will understand that the volume of passengers you will get in a week will be about a million guests,” Amaechi stated.

According to the minister, there will be an expansion in the concept of the Kano Station, which is mostly the exact same structure as the Lagos Station but has more space than the Lagos Station.

He kept in mind that the go to of the Kano delegation was likewise a chance to ponder on the Dala IDP, which was already at the sophisticated phase.

He said the ministry’s delegation would on March 5, check out the site to determine the level of work and how even more the ministry might support realisation of the task.

Previously, Ganduje said that the state federal government had actually contributed about N2.5 billion to the dry port job to guarantee its rapid conclusion and commercialisation.

“We are investing about N2.5 billion, we are providing access roadways, we are likewise providing other social features just to contribute our own quota.

“That project was developed 20 years ago however never materialised until throughout our time.

“So, I make sure that this task is a truth and in order to do that we need to provide an allowing environment to contribute our own quota.

“So, we are happy with the developers because they have gone far and we enjoy with the honourable minister of transportation due to the fact that he has actually provided maximum cooperation in helping to see that the Kano State Dala IDP is a truth,” Ganduje said.