Lekki International Airport is a proposed airport in
Lekki
Lekki is a city in Lagos State, Nigeria. It is located to the south-east of Lagos, Lagos city. Lekki is a naturally formed peninsula, adjoining to its west Victoria Island (Lagos), Victoria Island and Ikoyi districts of Lagos, with the Atlantic O ...
,
Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
, designed for a capacity of 5 million passengers annually.
Background
The Lekki Airport project is projected to cost
₦
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71.64bn (
US$
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450 million) in its first phase, planned to be situated 10 km from
Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ), and was originally proposed to open in 2012.
It will be designed to cater for the
Airbus A380
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Airbus studies started in 1988, and the project was annou ...
, 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-maker ...
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.
See also
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List of airports in Nigeria
This is a list of airports in Nigeria, grouped by type and sorted by location.
Nigeria has 32 airports, 26 of which are operated by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), and five of which are functional international airports. It also ...
References
Airports in Lagos
Lekki
Proposed airports in Africa
Proposed transport infrastructure in Lagos
Airports in Yorubaland
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