President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja for South
Africa today to participate in the Forum on China/Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in
Johannesburg where he will ask China’s President Xi Jinping to fund rail and
power projects urgently needed to diversify an economy hit hard by a plunge in oil
prices.
The meeting would be a continuation of his interaction
with Jinping which began in New York during the last General Assembly of the
United Nations, UN.
The President would 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 to the
forum which would commence on December 4 and end on December 5.
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