Nigeria signed a $6.68 billion railway contract on May 15, 2018, with China’s state-owned China Civil Engineering Construction Corp. (CCECC) for the construction of a section along the line between the economic capital, Lagos, and the Kano trading hub (North).
In March 2017, the Nigerian government awarded CCECC a $1.79 billion contract to build the second phase of the railway connecting the center of Lagos to several of its suburbs.
The modernization project for the Lagos-Kano railway line started in 2006 and has been divided into several batches. A first phase started in 2011 with the Abuja-Kaduna portion, commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2016.
And CCECC had completed the first phase of the project called Abuja Light Rail.
With a total length of 28 miles, the railway covers 12 stations, 21 operational offices, 13 bridges, 50 culverts and nine pedestrian overpasses.
