Nigeria and China signed an official building deal earlier today, to build a railway along the African country’s coast, China Railway Construction Corp. Ltd. (CRCC) said.
According to the CRCC the $11.97 billion contract is China’s single largest external contract project.
The seaside 22-stop railway, which will stretch for 1,402 kilometers, will link Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos in the west with Calabar in the east.