Nigeria will enter negotiations with General Electric over a railway project in the West African country, transport minister Rotimi Amaechi said on Wednesday.

In March the U.S. company had submitted the only bid for the $2 billion project connecting northern cities to the south of the country, a procurement process adviser said in March.

 

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