{"id":1414,"date":"2024-08-18T04:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T04:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/nigerian-presidential-jets-seized-in-france-amid-dispute-with-chinese-firm\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T04:23:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T04:23:53","slug":"nigerian-presidential-jets-seized-in-france-amid-dispute-with-chinese-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/nigerian-presidential-jets-seized-in-france-amid-dispute-with-chinese-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian presidential jets seized in France amid dispute with Chinese firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A French court has seized three jets owned by the Nigerian government amid a long-standing dispute with a Chinese company.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The row stems from a 2007 contract between Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment and Nigeria&#8217;s south-western Ogun State to develop a free-trade zone where a massive industrial park was to be developed to attract investors.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The agreement was terminated between 2015 and 2016. According to the <!-- --><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/048e5010-8afd-4b14-a971-7dea39d43f16\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Times<!-- --><\/a>, Zhongshan said it was forced out of the deal through a &#8220;campaign of illegal acts&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The authorities in Nigeria have fiercely condemned the seizure of its planes,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cdjwlrx8n8xo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A French court has seized three jets owned by the Nigerian government amid a long-standing dispute with a Chinese company. The row stems from a 2007 contract between Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment and Nigeria&#8217;s south-western Ogun State to develop a free-trade zone where a massive industrial park was to be developed to attract investors. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-france"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parispresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}