The Federal Government has said that the Lekki Deep Seaport venture would make 112,000 positions to Nigerians upon its consummation.
The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, expressed this on Sunday in Jalingo, Taraba State capital while tending to columnists.
Sambo said that the port, which is second in Nigeria after Onne Deep-Sea port would carry more weight and income to the port and the country.
He further said that the task would influence decidedly on the country’s economy.
The clergyman said, “The Lekki Deep Sea Port undertaking is the second after Onne Deep Sea Port in Nigeria. It is critical on the grounds that the biggest boats on the planet can billet at the Port. That implies, more weight, more freight, more income for the port and for the country, more financial exercises; or more all, more positions like I said. More than 112, 000 both immediate and circuitous positions will be made because of the production of the Lekki Deep Sea Port.
“This will be in the initial not many years and over the long haul and as exercises extend, the quantity of the positions will try and duplicate and that is what we want. For as additional positions we have, the more our capacity to put food on the table of numerous Nigerians.”