Chinese firm to complete four airports in 2015

The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation
has pledged to deliver the four international airport
terminals it will be constructing in Nigeria in 20
months time.
The airport terminals will be located in Lagos, Abuja,
Kano and Port Harcourt.
This is coming as the ministers of Transport and
Works, Senator Idris Umar and Mr. Mike Onolememen,
have called on the construction company to start
investing in Nigeria considering the enormous projects
being handled by it in the country.
The President, CCECC, Mr. Yuan Li, disclosed the firm's
resolve to complete the airport terminals in record time
when a high-powered delegation of Nigerian
government officials paid him a courtesy/facility
inspection visit at the corporate headquarters of the
company in Beijing on Tuesday.
Li, according to a statement signed by the Special
Adviser (Media) to the Minister of Aviation, Mr. Joe
Obi, said the quality of the work to be done at the
airports would be of the highest international standard
comparable to similar projects executed by the
company in other parts of the world.
He said the construction of the airport terminals was a
special project by the company, adding that it would
endeavour to complete the task in record time.
In her remarks, the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella
Oduah, said she was eagerly looking forward to the
signing of the agreement between both countries with
respect to enhancing infrastructure development in
Nigeria.
She expressed optimism that the construction giant
would complete the projects in the next 18 to 20
months.
Oduah said she had no doubt on either the quality of
job to be delivered by CCECC or the completion
timeline since due diligence was conducted before the
Federal Government finally settled for the company.
"When completed, the Nigerian international airports
will take their rightful places in the world aviation map
and boost Nigeria's position as the natural hub for
commercial aviation business on the African
continent," she said.