Who are Bank of China’s Nigerian partners on pipeline mega-project?

摘要

NNPC group managing directorrnMaikanti Kacalla Baru cut short hisrnannual pilgrimage to the Mecca in laternAugust and headed for Dubai to meetrnwith various stakeholders of PresidentrnMuhammadu Buhari’s flagship project:rnthe Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK)rngas pipeline. While in the United ArabrnEmirates, Baru met with the main financialrnbacker of the project, the Bank ofrnChina, who has pledged some $2.8 billion.rnThe structure will run over 600 kmrnto connect the central Kogi State withrnthe northern states of Kaduna and Kano,rnthe region where Buhari registered hisrnhighest electoral scores in 2015. It isrnin the Nigerian government’s interestrnto speed up progress on the projectrnahead of the president election scheduledrnfor February 2019 for which Buharirnhas decided to contest.