Business Nigeria: Lagos-Ibadan Railway Construction Begins This Year- Amaechi

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Nigeria's Minister of Transportation and former Governor of Rivers State, Chief Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has announced that plans are already on ground for the construction of a railway linking Lagos and Ibadan cities.

According to him, the Buhari administration has concluded plans to award the contract for the construction of the railway project.

“The President called a meeting last week and requested too be briefed on what we are doing in terms of the railway. This year, we will start Lagos-Ibadan, railway project. You know the difference between us and the rest, we will not say go and start we will look for counterpart funding.

“We will bring our counterpart fund as poor as the country is now and give to the Chinese because their money is already in their bank account. It is for us to bring our own. If we bring our own they bring their own to make sure there is no delay, we will bring all our own to give them and say go and start work.

“If that happened, in two years, Lagos-Ibadan will be ready. Tomorrow I will sign the contracts for Calabar-Port Harcourt railway project. Before the week runs out, I will sign Kano-Kaduna. That is what we are doing. This is to show you that we are moving away from the corruption economy to production economy.”


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