The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says herders and traders can soon move their cows from northern Nigeria to the country’s southern region using rail services.

NRC Managing Director, FIDET OKHIRIA, disclosed this hours after President BOLA TINUBU announced the creation of a new ministry for livestock development.

He said the movement of cows and other goods would resume with the Warri-Itakpe route.

However, OKHIRIA said in a matter of one or two months, herders would be able to move their cattle on the Warri-Itakpe train services. 

He said the NRC has brought in some wagons that can mobilize livestock and they are being assembled in the Kajola area of Oyo State in the South-West.