Abuja — With the completion of the track laying work of Nigeria's first standard gauge railway modernization project linking the capital city Abuja and the northwestern state of Kaduna, hope was rekindled that the government's transformation agenda, particularly for the rail transport sector, would yield fruitful results in the West African country.
The project, executed by Chinese rail construction giant China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC), will be fully completed in February 2015 and the rail transport services, the first of its kind in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, will commence at the end of that month.
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