President Muhammadu Buhari will leave for South Africa on Thursday to participate in the Forum on China/Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).
A statement issued by the Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, says that during the forum Buhari will have a meeting with Chinese president, Xi Jinping, on how to re-commence stalled rail projects under new terms that would see China providing nearly all the financing required.
The statement in part reads
"Of particular interest is the coastal railway project stretching for 1 402 kilometres linking Lagos in the west with Calabar in the South; a project that is expected to be financed with $12 billion Chinese loan and which will create about 200 000 jobs.
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