GLOBALink | Nigerian president commissions Chinese-assisted airport terminal in economic hub

ABUJA, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commissioned the newly-built international terminal at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in the economic hub of Lagos.

The Chinese-assisted project was designed to handle 20 million passengers in a year while creating 3,000 direct and indirect jobs, Buhari said at the commissioning ceremony in Lagos.

The facility is one of the four new international airport terminals built in the country's major airports to modernize operation and passenger facilitation.

The project was executed by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation or CCECC.

It was done in partnership with the Chinese government, involving a loan of 500 million U.S. dollars from the Import-Export Bank of China and 100 million dollars in funding from the Nigerian government.

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