{"id":3281,"date":"2023-07-01T08:03:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T08:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/2023\/07\/01\/us-to-build-537m-consulate-in-nigerias-megacity\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T08:03:35","slug":"us-to-build-537m-consulate-in-nigerias-megacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/2023\/07\/01\/us-to-build-537m-consulate-in-nigerias-megacity\/","title":{"rendered":"US to build $537m consulate in Nigeria&#8217;s megacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The United States will build a $537m consulate in the Nigerian megacity Lagos, the country&#8217;s commercial capital, as Washington strengthens economic and diplomatic relations with Africa&#8217;s most populous country.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"kContentImage \">\n<p>Source: Gallo\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The US is among the largest foreign investors and donors in Nigeria with annual trade between the two countries at over $10bn, according to the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>US ambassador to Nigeria Mary Leonard said the new consulate, to be built on land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean, would take five years to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Like most countries, the US has an embassy in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, and a consulate office in Lagos, a sprawling city of more than 20 million people and Nigeria&#8217;s major economic hub.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will build a $537m consulate in the Nigerian megacity Lagos, the country&#8217;s commercial capital, as Washington strengthens economic and diplomatic relations with Africa&#8217;s most populous country. Source: Gallo\/Getty The US is among the largest foreign investors and donors in Nigeria with annual trade between the two countries at over $10bn, according to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[78,77],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property-development","tag-development","tag-property"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}