{"id":227765,"date":"2026-03-22T01:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/west-africa-nigeria-uk-seal-746m-deal-to-rebuild-apapa-tin-can-ports\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T01:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:39:09","slug":"west-africa-nigeria-uk-seal-746m-deal-to-rebuild-apapa-tin-can-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/west-africa-nigeria-uk-seal-746m-deal-to-rebuild-apapa-tin-can-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Nigeria, UK Seal \u00a3746m Deal to Rebuild Apapa, Tin Can Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Nigeria has secured a \u00a3746 million export finance agreement with the United Kingdom to support the redevelopment of Lagos&#8217; Apapa and Tin Can Island port complexes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">According to a report by the BBC, the deal was finalised on Thursday during a bilateral meeting between UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Bola Tinubu at Downing Street in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Under the agreement, UK Export Finance will guarantee loans for the refurbishment of the two major port facilities, with the financing structure to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200271.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria has secured a \u00a3746 million export finance agreement with the United Kingdom to support the redevelopment of Lagos&#8217; Apapa and Tin Can Island port complexes. According to a report by the BBC, the deal was finalised on Thursday during a bilateral meeting between UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Bola Tinubu at Downing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[53973,258,256,22885,7012,257,4687,393,11710,7090,5120,254,53974,4375],"class_list":["post-227765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-746m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apapa","tag-deal","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-ports","tag-rebuild","tag-seal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tin","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}