{"id":32532,"date":"2023-01-26T05:26:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T02:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/nigeria-opens-game-changer-billion-dollar-deep-seaport\/32532\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T05:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T02:26:29","slug":"nigeria-opens-game-changer-billion-dollar-deep-seaport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/nigeria-opens-game-changer-billion-dollar-deep-seaport\/32532\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Opens &#8216;Game Changer&#8217; Billion-dollar Deep Seaport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">\n<span class=\"\" itemprop=\"author\">By Seun Sanni<\/span><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-01-25T11:23:01.0000000\"\/><br \/>\n<span class=\"date\">January 25, 2023<\/span><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2023-01-25T11:23:01.0000000\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"images-wrapper single\">\n<div class=\"images\">\n<div class=\"image active\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe US$1.5 billion Lekki Deep Sea Port is commissioned in Lagos, Nigeria. (Photo: Nigerian Ports Authority)\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Nigeria opened a billion-dollar Chinese-built deep seaport in Lagos on Monday, which is expected to ease congestion at the country&#8217;s ports and help it become an African hub for transshipment, handling cargoes in transit for other destinations.<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has made building infrastructure a key pillar of his government&#8217;s economic policy, and hopes that this will help his ruling party win votes during next month&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The new Lekki Deep Sea Port is 75% owned by the China Harbour Engineering Company and Tolaram group, with the balance shared between the Lagos state government and the Nigerian Ports Authority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a transformative project, game changer project. This project could create at least 200,000 jobs,&#8221; Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria Cui Jianchun told Reuters after the port was commissioned by Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>China is among the largest bilateral lenders to Nigeria and has funded rail, roads and power stations.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reuters &#8211; Writing by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Jan Harvey)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Seun Sanni January 25, 2023 The US$1.5 billion Lekki Deep Sea Port is commissioned in Lagos, Nigeria. (Photo: Nigerian Ports Authority) Nigeria opened a billion-dollar Chinese-built deep seaport in Lagos on Monday, which is expected to ease congestion at the country&#8217;s ports and help it become an African hub for transshipment, handling cargoes in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/32533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}