[b] The president, who will be accompanied by the minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema; minister of Transportation, Chubuike Amaechi; and the minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah all southerners.

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President Muhammadu Buhari will be in South Africa, today to participate in the Forum on China/Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) taking place in Johannesburg, December 4-5, 2015. At this forum President Buhari will follow up his meeting with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping which took place on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in November in New York.

This is contained in a statement issued by the senior special assistant to the president on Media, Garba Shehu.

According to Shehu, President Buhari had indicated to Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader at the bilateral meeting in New York that he wanted China to re-commence stalled rail projects under new terms that would see China providing nearly all the financing required.

Of particular interest is the coastal railway project stretching for 1402 kilometers linking Lagos in the West with Calabar in the East; a project that is expected to be financed with 12 billion U.S Dollars Chinese loan and which will create about 200,000 jobs.

Another rail project that will be up for renegotiation is the $8.3bn Lagos-Kano standard gauge modernisation project, of which only a segment, Kaduna-Abuja has reached completion stage.

President Buhari is also expected to discuss ways of removing all obstacles in the way of the 3,050 MW Mambila Power Station, considered a strategic project which was conceived in 1982 but has not taken off.

The Chinese president had informed President Buhari of the willingness of his country to finance the whole project through a special loan agreement. The president, who will be accompanied by the minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema; minister of Transportation, Chubuike Amaechi; and the minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, will return on Saturday,December 5.

Source: www.leadership.ng/news/480136/pmb-chinese-leader-discuss-railway-power-projects-south-africa[/b]

Don't be bought over. The president will forget that before touching on SA soil.

He will come back home without raising a point on that.

Buhari can speak english and the chinese are horrible at english too, how are they gonna communicate?

chinese to english (translator) to hausa...

Hope uncle bubu wil nt forget b4 getting to south africa?hear say he dey even forget him name sometimes

speedyGonzales:
Buhari can speak english and the chinese are horrible at english too, how are they gonna communicate?

chinese to english (translator) to hausa...

What is the work of both the minister of trade and investment and Foreign affairs who accompanied him?

iokpebholo:
Hope uncle bubu wil nt forget b4 getting to south africa?hear say he dey even forget him name sometimes

En ney take shekpe , like DAT otoukean man