Chinese company, China Civil Engineering
Construction Corporation (CCECC) visited the
president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari and
presented a prototype of high speed rail
project.
This meeting can be a sign that Buhari’s
government may be looking to develop a
high-speed rail system across Nigeria.
The Chinese delegation defined the
president-elect on how the project would
work.
Buhari was also shown literature about the
project. Along with the Chinese delegation
was the All Progressives Congress chairman,
Chief John Oyegun.
Early last year, the present administration of
President Goodluck Jonathan got Nigeria’s
exhausted railway network on its feet with
a N24bn ($151.7m) investment programme
that engaged the upgrading of tracks and
signalling equipment.
With the purchase of 25 GE locomotives and
renovation of 500 wagons and passenger
coaches, services recommenced on the
1,126km Lagos to Kano line that had been
closed for the last 10 years.
Meanwhile, the revitalized railway network
stays old-fashioned and the administration
planned to upgrade the whole network,
which is still running on the narrow device
tracks laid down by the British colonial
government when they started the service
in 1912.
Currently, Nigeria has only two major rail
lines, with one connecting Lagos to Yobe
and the other connecting Port Harcourt to
Maiduguri.
Apart from other things, it is expected to
lead the job creation by improving
commuter mobility and also decrease traffic
and carbon emissions on congested
highways.
With more overfilled roads and a higher
number of car accidents a year, Nigeria
urgently needs to move traffic off its roads
and on to rail.
Before the presidential election the
incumbent leader of the country President
Jonathan said that he has satisfied his
promise to recover a moribund railway
system in Nigeria.
He said that when he came into office as
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
on 6 May 2010, he promised to himself to
put Nigerian railways back on track, as he
considered that it offered the most
inexpensive mode of transportation for the
people.

On point

You see leadership. Unlike some fools who would rather go through back yard to purchase things.

We ar progressing

. They are still janjanweed from today till 2mao

Ok, tins are normallizing as 4 now

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