 President Bola Tinobu has approved a 50% cut in land transportation fares from December 21 to January 4, 2024, across the country. The president also has approved zero fare for twin transportation in all the states of the Federation within the same period. The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Mr. Delay Alake, disclosed this while briefing state House correspondents at the presidential villa in Abuja. In the spirit of Christmas and the end of the year festivities, President Bola Tinobu, DCFR, in another demonstration of his love for Nigeria, has approved that the Federal Government should intervene to bring down the cost of public transportation to allow patriots who want to travel to visit their loved ones and hometown to do so without stress and the extra burden imposed by the high cost of transport around this period. President Tinobu wants Nigerians to be able to travel within Nigeria to wherever they want to go to meet their loved ones without the extra burden of paying them subjectively for interstate public transportation. It is in this wise that the president is announcing through us that beginning from tomorrow, that's the 21st of December, Nigerians willing to travel can board public transport via mini buses, luxury buses at 50% discount of current cost and all our trade services on the routes they trace correctly serve at zero cost to and through on their travels this holiday season. This special presidential intervention will commence tomorrow, Thursday, December 21 and it will end on January 4, 2024. The Federal Government through the Ministry of Transportation will be working with transporters, road transport unions, the Nigerian Railway Corporation to seamlessly deliver on this special presidential initiative.