Nigerian President Bola Tinubu lands in London Tuesday for a state visit hosted by Britain’s King Charles III, the first between Africa’s most populous nation and its former colonial power in nearly four decades.
Tinubu has visited the United Kingdom several times in his tenure as Nigeria’s president and the two countries remain major partners in trade, aid and defence. London is also home to a massive Nigerian diaspora.
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Likely on the agenda are issues ranging from major Nigerian port renovations backed by Britain as well as trade, which reached £8.1 billion ($11 billion) in the year to September 2025, an 11.4 percent year-on-year increase.
Tinubu and his wife, Oluremi, will be greeted Wednesday by Prince William and his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales.
King Charles will later receive Tinubu for an audience at Windsor Castle before hosting a state banquet that evening.
On Thursday, Tinubu is expected to meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as well as members of the Nigerian community abroad, according to the official schedule. King Charles hosted a reception last week for members of the Nigerian diaspora at St James’s Palace.
The trip will be the first formal state visit by a Nigerian president to Britain in 37 years, although Tinubu was received by Charles in September 2024.