By Adesina Soyooye
Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, will in March, embark on a two-day State Visit to the United Kingdom.
This was announced on Saturday by the Royal Communications Unit, Buckingham Palace in a statement.
The state visit, on the invitation of British Monarch, His Royal Majesty, King Charles, is scheduled for March 18, according to the announcement.
To be accompanied by First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, it will be the first state visit to the United Kingdom in 39 years, by a Nigerian President/Head of State.
The first Nigerian Leader to be invited to a state visit by a British Monarch was General Yakubu Gowon in 1973. That was followed by the State Visit in 1981 by President Shehu Shagari. The third was in 1989 by President Ibrahim Babangida. The three State Visits were during the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth 11.
39 years after, it is the turn of President Bola Tinubu.
King Charles, when he was Prince of Wales, had visited Nigeria four times – 1990, 1999, 2006, 2018.
The upcoming visit is not, however, the first time the King would meet with President Tinubu. He had, in 2024, received the President on a private visit. Both had, also, earlier met in November 2023 ahead of the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirate.
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