President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday inaugurate the newly built international terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.
The terminal has the capacity to process 14 million passengers per annum and was built on a landmass of approximately 56,000 square metres and has 66 check-in counters.
Disclosing this in a statement on Tuesday, the airport acting General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Faithful Hope-Ivbaze, said that there will also be a signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Lagos State Government on the 9km Airport-Shasha-Alimosho link Road to be constructed by the State Government.
The terminal was also built in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano, and Enugu, in a bilateral arrangement between the Federal Government of Nigeria, and the People’s Republic of China.
The ones in Abuja and Port Harcourt have been completed and commissioned already, while that of Kano has been completed and will soon be commissioned.
According to the statement, “Other facilities in the terminal include 5 baggage collection carousels, 16 Immigration desks at arrival, 28 Immigration desks at departure, 8 security screening points, 6 passenger boarding bridges (out of which 2 has already been installed), 2 food courts, 4 premium lounges, 22 guest rooms and spa, 16 airline ticketing offices, visa on arrival and port health facility, as well as praying area, more than 3,000 square metres of duty-free space, approximately 5,000 square metres of lettable utility space, amongst others.”
The acting GM added that the new terminal is expected to generate about three thousand direct and indirect employment for Nigerians, as well as enhance passenger facilitation and comfort at the Lagos airport.
Buhari is also expected to during his visit to Lagos inaugurate the Dangote Fertiliser Plant, estimated to have cost about $2.5 billion.
A programme detailing the planned proceedings for the event reveals that the official opening of the facility begins at 10a.m. and will be attended by the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Others expected at the event include the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mahmoud’s Abubakar; the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, and the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele.
The plant is believed to be Africa’s largest granulated urea fertiliser complex and occupies 500 hectares of land in Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lagos Nigeria.