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Buhari Visits Lagos, Inaugurates Dangote Fertiliser Plant, Inspects New Seaport

Buhari Visits Lagos, Inaugurates Dangote Fertiliser Plant, Inspects New Seaport
  • PublishedMarch 21, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari, will tomorrow, Tuesday make an official visit to Lagos to inaugurate Dangote fertilizer plant.

President Buhari is expected to take a factory tour of the Dangote TPA Fertilizer facility, an inspection trip of the 650,000 BPO oil refinery and 900,000 TPA Polypropylene Plant, as well as a tour of the newly established Lekki Deep Sea Port.

The president’s scheduled visit to Lagos is coming after he arrived in the country on Friday, following a medical trip to London on March 6.

Owned by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, the Dangote fertilizer plant, situated in the Lekki area of Nigeria’s commercial hub, has a capacity to produce three million tons a year of urea and ammonia.

The deep seaport project, to be inspected by Mr Buhari during the visit, is expected to contribute more than $200 billion to the federal government’s coffers and create close to 170,000 new jobs.

The deep seaport will have a 600-metre turning circle and a 16.5-metre draught, with a projected annual capacity of 2.7 million TEUs.

It will also have three container berths, a dry bulk berth, three liquid berths, and marine facility berthing facilities.

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