The World Bank has offered Togo a financial aid of 33 million U. S. dollars to improve the West African country's infrastructure and promote regional development, official sources said on Wednesday. The agreements were signed in the Togolese capital Lome on Tuesday in the presence of Minister of Economy and Finance Adji Ayassor, Minister of Public Works and Transport Comlan Kadje and the bank's country representative Joseph Baah-Dwomoh. The grant will go to road construction along the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor passing through Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Cote d'lvoire. A centerpiece will be an eight-km section of road along the corridor with environmental concern. The aid will also be used to facilitate sharing of information by the customs administrations along the corridor, to set up a check-point at the Lome Autonomous Port and to boost capacities of agencies for cross-border movements. The funding, among others, will benefit training programs to improve the customs services and facilitate highway transport. 'I wish that the signing of a funding agreement with the World Bank will bring along the support of other development partners in order to allow our country to pursue the efforts she has begun to modernize our infrastructure in general and particularly the roads in the interest of our population,' Ayassor said. Besides this project to facilitate commerce and transport along the corridor, he said, the Togolese government has a vast program of rehabilitating and modernizing the roads to guarantee the security of the people and this will boost the country's productivity. 