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The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has reacted to a viral video showing that one of its trains ran out of fuel and stopped in the middle of a forest en route Ibadan from Lagos.
NRC Managing Director, Fidet Okhiria, made it known in Lagos on Thursday night that the incident was caused by fuel gauge failure on the passenger train service.
She also explained that passengers coming to Lagos from Ibadan through the standard gauge train were not stranded as the matter was resolved within an hour.
“The train gauge had an issue while the engineers thought the diesel in the train tank would take them to Lagos.
“The train gauge was not reading correctly, so by the time they started moving, the driver discovered that there is no sufficient diesel in the train.
“Immediately they discovered the challenge, they responded quickly and under an hour they were able to get drum of diesel to fill the tank and continued the journey back to Lagos,” Okhiria said.
The train conveying commuters to Ibadan ran out of fuel and stopped, however, NRC made provisions for it to be refilled before the continuation of the journey.