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UPDATE 1-Portugal's Moto-Engil to build Nigeria-Niger rail line - minister

Published 11/01/2021, 17:44
Updated 11/01/2021, 17:48
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LAGOS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Portugal's largest builder
Mota-Engil MOTA.LS has won the contract to build a railway
line between Nigeria and neighbouring Niger, Nigeria's
Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi said on Monday.
The contract, which will link the northern Nigerian city of
Kano with Niger's Maradi, is expected to be worth nearly $2
billion, according to a budget approved by Nigeria's Federal
Executive Council last year.
"Today, we signed the contract documents for the
commencement of the Kano-Maradi, Kano-Dutse railway project,"
Amaechi wrote in a tweet.
Mota-Engil had also agreed to build a university as part of
the agreement, he added.
The scheme is part of a government plan to build rail
networks across Nigeria to address the poor transport
infrastructure that has stymied economic growth for decades.
Nigeria's government, under President Muhammadu Buhari, has
sought to rebuild the impoverished north of the country, parts
of which have been ravaged for the past decade by Islamist
insurgents.
A separate project seeks to connect the Nigeria's commercial
hub Lagos and Kano.


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