Kaduna-bound prepare derails at Asham alongside Abuja-Kaduna hall 

A Kaduna-bound passenger prepare derailed on Tuesday morning at Asham, alongside the Abuja-Kaduna hall, shortly after departing Abuja at 9:45 am. 

The Nigerian Tv Authority (NTA) introduced the incident by way of its official X account, posting:  

“Kaduna certain prepare derails at Asham alongside Abuja-Kaduna hall. Prepare left Abuja at 9:45 am.” 

NTA additionally shared a video clip displaying a number of coaches off the observe, with passengers together with ladies, youngsters and males crawling out of the prepare.  

Within the footage, the particular person behind the digicam defined that she had been seated within the final coach and, upon exiting after the prepare got here to a halt, found that different coaches had overturned with folks gathered exterior. 

On the time of submitting this report, the Nigerian Railway Company (NRC) had not issued an official assertion, and NTA didn’t point out whether or not there have been casualties. 

What it is best to know 

Nigeria’s railway system has recorded a number of prepare accidents throughout varied corridors lately, with derailments rising as probably the most frequent. 

The Abuja-Kaduna hall, one of many nation’s busiest passenger routes, has been notably affected.  

• Simply days in the past, the Nigerian Railway Company (NRC) confirmed {that a} Kaduna-bound prepare skilled a “sizzling axle” fault close to Rigasa Station in Kaduna, which disrupted providers for some enterprise class passengers.  

• Earlier in Could 2024, one other derailment was reported at Jeremy Station alongside the identical hall. 

• One other main line, the Warri-Itakpe hall, can also be at present present process pressing and significant observe repairs following a suspension of providers. The NRC introduced on August 22, 2025, that work on the affected sections has reached a sophisticated stage and that operations will quickly resume, highlighting the broader security and upkeep challenges confronting Nigeria’s rail infrastructure. 

In line with the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics (NBS) 2023 Social Statistics Report, derailments have been the most typical kind of prepare accident in Nigeria between 2020 and 2022.  

The report documented 183 derailment incidents throughout the three-year interval, in comparison with 155 instances of lack of management and locomotive failure, 51 instances of detachment, 28 collisions, 9 washouts, and 41 accidents linked to miscellaneous causes. 

Past accidents, vandalism has additionally posed a serious problem to the railway system. Incidents such because the removing of rail tracks, theft of signaling tools, and sabotage of essential infrastructure have repeatedly disrupted operations and raised security considerations throughout a number of routes.