UP GEJ!: Transport

TRANSPORTATION

•The Jonathan administration inaugurated the Lagos-Kano train service, which had been moribund for almost

a decade. This is a major feat considering the long years of decay in the rail transportation sector.
•The Eastern rail line from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri is being rehabilitated as well as the fixing of the Zaria/Kaura Namoda rail route.
•The Abuja to Kaduna 187 kilometre rail line is about more than 30 per cent completed.
•the Ajaokuta-Warri Standard Gauge Rail line will be completed any time now. This will provide a less than four-hour journey between the Middlebelt and the South South.
•The Lagos-Ibadan new gauge rail line, which was also initiated last year is on course.
•The Federal Government has completed three feasibility studies and commissioned three others to open new railway corridors, which will be concessioned to local and foreign investors. An unprecedented investment of 200 billion dollars will flow into the Nigerian economy through these concessions in 2013 and 2014 with over 10 million new jobs of skilled and unskilled laborers (engineers, technicians, machinists, accountants) created in the next two years.

SURE-P PROJECTS
•In 2012 N9 billion was spent By the Subsidy Removal and Re-Investment Programme (SURE-P)on:
500 Primary Health Centres (PHC) across the 36 states and FCT of the Federation.
Employment and deployment of skilled Health Workers- Midwives, Community Health Workers (CHEWs), and Village Health Workers (VHWs).
Upgrading, Equipping and Supplying of Drugs to the 500 PHCs across the six geopolitical zones are being done.
Selection of 125 General Hospitals across the 36 states and the FCT. Equipping and upgrading their Maternity section to provide comprehensive intervention for complicated Maternal and Child cases from the PHCs is being done.
•4,604 jobs created for health workers in 2012.