Since independence,with Jaja Wachuku as the first Minister for Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations,later called External Affairs,Nigerian foreign policy has been characterised by a focus on Africa as a regional power and by attachment to several fundamental principles:African unity and independence;capability to exercise hegemonic influence in the region:peaceful settlement of disputes;non-alignment and non-intentional interference in the internal affairs of other nations;and regional economic cooperation and development. In carrying out these principles,Nigeria participates in the African Union,the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),the Non-Aligned Movement,the Commonwealth of Nations,and the United Nations.
Foreign relations of the Republic of China (ROC),more commonly known as Taiwan,are accomplished by efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China,a cabinet-level ministry of the Government of the Republic of China. As of January 2024,the ROC has formal diplomatic relations with 11 of the 193 United Nations member states and with the Holy See,the central governing body of the Catholic Church. In addition to these relations,the ROC also maintains unofficial diplomatic relations with 59 UN member states,one self-declared state (Somaliland),three territories (Guam,Hong Kong,and Macau),and the European Union via its representative offices and consulates. In 2021,the Government of the Republic of China had the 33rd largest diplomatic network in the world with 110 offices.
The eco is the name for the proposed common currency of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Plans originally called for the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) states to introduce the currency first,which would eventually be merged with the Euro-pegged CFA franc which is used by the French-speaking West African region within the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). This will also enable the UEMOA states to gain complete fiscal and monetary independence from France. The UEMOA states have alternatively proposed to reform the CFA franc into the eco first,which could then be extended to all ECOWAS states.
The German Embassy in Abuja is Germany's diplomatic mission to Nigeria.
A de facto embassy is an office or organisation that serves de facto as an embassy in the absence of normal or official diplomatic relations among countries,usually to represent nations which lack full diplomatic recognition,regions or dependencies of countries,or territories over which sovereignty is disputed. In some cases,diplomatic immunity and extraterritoriality may be granted.
Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki is a Nigerian politician who served as the Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development of Nigeria since 6 July 2022 till 29th May 2023. She served earlier as the Minister of State for Transportation from 2019 till she was moved by the President to the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development in 2022.
General elections were held in Nigeria on 28 and 29 March 2015,the fifth quadrennial election to be held since the end of military rule in 1999. Voters elected the President and members to the House of Representatives and the Senate. The incumbent president,Goodluck Jonathan,sought his second and final term.
Mambury Njie is a Gambian politician and the current Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs in Adama Barrow's cabinet.
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States represents the interests of Taiwan in the United States in the absence of formal diplomatic relations,functioning as a de facto embassy. Its counterpart in Taiwan is the office of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) in Taipei.
Olusegun Awolowo Jr.,is a Nigerian lawyer,he was the executive director of Nigerian Export Promotion Council,from 2013 to 2021. He is the grandson of former Nigerian nationalist,socialist and statesman,Chief Obafemi Awolowo. In July 2021,he was unanimously elected as the President of National Trade Promotion Organizations (TPOs) from ECOWAS member States.
Fatima Kyari Mohammed is the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations.
Ambassador Zubairu Dada was born on in Minna,Niger State. He is the minister of State Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,appointed in 2019. He was the director of Mass Mobilization for Self Reliance,Social Justice,and Economic Recovery from 1993 to 1993 where he rose to a position of Director,National Orientation Agency (NOA).
Michael Zickerick is a German diplomat. He served as the German ambassador to Moldova from 2000 to 2004 and as the director general of the German Institute Taipei in Taiwan from 2011 to 2014. Zickerick is a recipient of the Order of Brilliant Star.
Germany-Nigeria relations are the bilateral relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Federal Republic of Nigeria. Nigeria operates a Embassy in Berlin and Germany operates a Embassy in Abuja. Germany has a Consulate-General in Lagos and Nigeria has a Consulate-General in Frankfurt.
The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development(EBID) is a leading regional investment and development bank,owned by the fifteen Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Member States.
