LEAD. Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database
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Nigeria

733 recorded engagements by Nigeria's heads of state, heads of government and foreign ministers, 1990–2025.

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733Engagements
733Visits
0Phone calls
0Video conferences
58Signed agreements
98Destination countries
23Officials recorded
338Multilateral summits

LEAD records 58 signed agreements for Nigeria; registered users can browse them in the Agreements register.

At a glance

Between 1990 and 2025, Nigeria's leaders recorded 733 engagements: 733 in-person visits, 0 phone calls and 0 video conferences. Activity peaked in 2005, with 70 engagements that year. The most frequent destination was United States of America (56 engagements), followed by United Kingdom and Ghana. Diplomacy and Foreign Relations was the most common topic, present in 96% of engagements. 58 engagements produced a signed agreement, and 338 took place at multilateral summits. The most active official on record is Olusegun Obasanjo (President), with 324 engagements between 1999 and 2007.

Activity by year

Every engagement recorded for Nigeria, 1990–2025. Hover a bar for the exact count.

1990: 13 engagements1991: 7 engagements1992: 5 engagements1993: 3 engagements1994: 6 engagements1995: 2 engagements1996: 1 engagement1997: 9 engagements1998: 11 engagements1999: 32 engagements2000: 35 engagements2001: 47 engagements2002: 46 engagements2003: 36 engagements2004: 38 engagements2005: 70 engagements2006: 24 engagements2007: 18 engagements2008: 15 engagements2009: 10 engagements2010: 14 engagements2011: 14 engagements2012: 27 engagements2013: 33 engagements2014: 26 engagements2015: 19 engagements2016: 24 engagements2017: 14 engagements2018: 16 engagements2019: 15 engagements2020: 4 engagements2021: 15 engagements2022: 22 engagements2023: 22 engagements2024: 18 engagements2025: 22 engagements19901995200020052010201520202025

Most-visited countries

  • United States of America56
  • United Kingdom45
  • Ghana34
  • Ethiopia30
  • France29
  • Ivory Coast27
  • South Africa26
  • Senegal21
  • Benin18
  • Togo17
  • Saudi Arabia17
  • China16

Discussion topics

  • Diplomacy and Foreign Relations704
  • Regional Organizations and Multilateral Affairs285
  • Trade and Economic Relations157
  • Symbolic and Ceremonial Issues11
  • Security and Defense11
  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism9
  • Environment and Climate Change8
  • Development and Aid5
  • Energy2
  • International Conflicts and Crises2
  • Agriculture and Food Security2
  • Peace and Security2

Cite this profile

Ozturk, Y., Atabas, H., Guler, E., Duyar, B., & Yucel, R. (2026). Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database [Data set]. Africa Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22976211 [Nigeria country profile. Accessed 22 October 2026. https://lead-database.netlify.app/country/nigeria.html]

Every part of the site quotes this same reference; other formats (MLA, Chicago, Harvard, BibTeX) are on the About page, which also describes the coding rules and sources. Figures here were generated from the dataset on 2026-10-22 and describe outbound engagements by Nigeria's own officials.