China has agreed to lend Nigeria $2.5billion for infrastructure projects in a renewed attempt to win access to markets and energy reserves in Africa's leading oil exporter.

Beijing has extended increasingly attractive offers of financial support to Nigeria in recent months to forge a closer relationship with Umaru Yar'Adua, Nigeria's president, who took office last May.

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Posted by boyang at April 21, 2008 6:46 PM