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By Emmanuella Anokam
Abuja, Feb. 10, 2021 The African Railway Consortium (AFRECO) has affirmed that Nigeria needed more transnational railway lines to sustain and expand its economic influence within Africa.
Mr Olawale Rasheed, Chief Executive Officer of AFRECO, who made this known in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, lauded the commencement of the Kano-Maradi railway project.
Naija247news reports that President Muhammadu Buhari had on Tuesday, Feb.9, held the groundbreaking of the rail project which begins from Kano in Nigeria to Maradi in Niger Republic.
African Railway Consortium works locally and internationally on railway development.
Rasheed, therefore, called for the initiation of Maiduguri-Ndjamena railway line, the inauguration of ECOWAS trans-west African Railway from Lagos to Abidjan and a line from Cross River to Cameroon.