Tinubu’s govt moves to deepen Lekki Seaport channel, details emerge

• The Lekki Deep seaport is astir to acquisition the attraction dredging of the transmission from 16.5 metres to 17 metres
• The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Abubakar Dantsoho, disclosed this during his maiden sojourn to the seaport successful Lagos state
• Dantsoho announced the support of the dredging of Lekki seaport, stating that the treatment has been connected for astir 2 oregon 3 years

Legit.ng writer Adekunle Dada has implicit 8 years of acquisition covering metro, authorities policy, and planetary issues

Lekki, Lagos state - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government has fixed the go-ahead for the attraction dredging of the $1.5bn Lekki Deep seaport channel.

The Lagos-based oversea larboard volition beryllium dredged from its contiguous 16.5 metres to 17 metres successful the archetypal instance, arsenic the national authorities targets a extent of 19 metres.

NPA announces plans to deepen Lekki Seaport transmission successful Lagos state. Photo credit: Clement Nwabuko
Source: UGC

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Abubakar Dantsoho, urged Lekki Port to consolidate transshipment volumes to landlocked neighboring countries.

Dantsoho made this known implicit the play during his maiden sojourn to Lekki larboard successful Lagos state.

He was accompanied to the Lekki seaport by elder absorption unit of the Authority.

This was contained successful a connection made disposable to Legit.ng connected Sunday, May 25, 2025.

The NPA brag said the emergence successful throughput measurement astatine Lekki Port is breathtaking to the authority.

"Lekki’s capableness to berth ace post-panamax vessels and present accelerated cargo and vas turnaround positions is simply a game-changer for Nigeria’s export competitiveness, peculiarly for agro-allied products, arsenic the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) gains traction.”

Federal govt approves moves to deepen Lekki Seaport channel

He added:

"So what are we doing to guarantee that this inclination continues? We are doing astir 5 things. Now, fig one, the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, with the proposal of the Nigerian Port Authority has gotten the support for the dredging of the transmission astatine Lekki Port. "This is thing that we person been moving towards, thing that we've been discussing for astir 2 oregon 3 years. And finally, we springiness God the glory that it has happened."We person besides syndicated a strategical concern statement with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to undertake the dredging successful the overriding involvement of commercialized facilitation". But due to the fact that we wanted to besides heighten the narration and marque the concern stronger successful a concerted bid to turn Nigeria's commercialized volumes". "So I deliberation that's a wide denotation of however superior and however supportive we tin get erstwhile it comes to issues of Lekki Port."

He besides disclosed that the NPA has awarded the declaration for the survey of the channel, which is besides a large request of the planetary larboard and harbour and navigation systems.

Lekki Deep Seaport Receives largest instrumentality vessel

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that Lekki Port, Nigeria's astir modern and deepest seaport, successfully accommodated the largest instrumentality vessel.

The vessel, Maersk Edirne, has an wide magnitude (LOA) of 366 meters and a width of 48 meters.

Lekki Port is the lone larboard successful Nigeria included successful the awesome larboard rotation, making it the biggest heavy seaport successful West Africa.

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Source: Legit.ng