China Railway Construction Corporation Limited has signed a contract for a $13.1billion, about N2 trillion, railway project with the Ministry of Transportation for a coastal railway line that will transverse ten states of Nigeria.
The length of the railway line will be 1,385 km in one-way mileage and a design speed of 120 km/h including twenty-two railway stations which is expected to be built along the line.
In a statement, the company said one of its subsidiaries, the China Civil Engineering Group Co., Ltd., signed the contract and that the two parties are still discussing details based on the released framework.
In a related development, Chinese Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng yesterday at the ongoing World Economic Forum in Abuja, said thatChina encourages more Chinese enterprises to expand investment in Nigeria’s manufacturing sector, transfer technologies and train personnel to increase local job opportunities.
He said such economic bilateral relationship will compliment each other’s economic interest since Nigeria has a huge population and consumer market, while China has an edge in the processing industry.
He said, “The two countries can further deepen bilateral cooperation in areas like textile, garment and household appliance industries on the basis of their current economic and trade cooperation zones, while gradually expanding the scale and level of cooperation.
“In recent years, investment from China’s private enterprises in Nigeria has increasingly been active as over 40 Chinese private firms have entered Nigeria with a total investment of $800 million in the fields of agriculture, textile industry, construction materials, mining and others.”
He further said that, “Chinese enterprises invest in Nigeria’s seed cultivation and have become the Nigerian government’s seed providers, which helps boost local self-support in grain. Chinese and Nigerian enterprises have joined hands in operating satellite networks, with digital television signals covering 84 percent of the African country, which promoted cultural exchanges of both countries.”
He added that, “Within the framework of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum, Chinese enterprises and the Nigerian government have worked together to build two economic and trade cooperation zones in Nigeria and to open chinaware, furniture and household appliance manufacturing factories, which have created more than 4,000 jobs in the country.”
This is unbelievable. why is Nigeria not getting civilize everyday or could it be that our leaders are so blind, uncivilized or blind and has no brain in their head at all to see and know what the other countries were doing? COASTER RAILWAY in 20th century!!!! UNBELIEVABLE. In the era METRO TRAIN PROJECT.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, all these people travels abroad and they see and enjoy those facility. That is why l asked if they have brain at all. ITS A SHAME TO THEM.
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT HAS NO VISION LEADING US. Such amount to be spend on coaster railway when it is enough to construct metro train.
Good one,......and then we import the technical support, and spares from China for the rest of the life span of this rail lines. No doubt that the Chinese company will bring all the manpower from China, even the sand may be imported......So how much of this investment revolves round the Nigerian economy in the short and long term?
ReplyDeleteit is too early to condem when u have not even seen truck. If d train project in Nigeria succeeds it is a big plus to d government of d day.
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