Lekki International Airport is a proposed airport in Lekki,

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, designed for a capacity of 5 million passengers annually.

Background

The Lekki Airport project is projected to cost ₦71.64bn ( US$ 450 million) in its first phase, planned to be situated 10 km from

Lekki Free Trade Zone Lekki is a city in Lagos State, Nigeria. It is located to the south-east of Lagos city. Lekki is a naturally formed peninsula, adjoining to its west Victoria Island and Ikoyi districts of Lagos, with the Atlantic Ocean to its south, Lagos Lagoon ...

(LFTZ), and was originally proposed to open in 2012. It will be designed to cater for the

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, making it a Code F compliant airport. In 2011, the

Lagos State Government Lagos State Government is the government of Lagos State, concerned with the administration of the state ministries. The government consists of the executive, legislative and Judiciary. The government is headed by the Governor who is the policy-mak ...

appointed Stanbic IBTC Bank as financial adviser for then airport project with a proposed 2012 opening. By 2019, the airport had still not opened with funding difficulties being reported.

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Background

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