end of list<\/span><\/section>\nWith trade between the two countries at a record high, Charles is using the two-day visit to highlight the pair\u2019s deep cultural and commercial links.<\/p>\n
Tinubu has made less formal visits to the United Kingdom several times during his tenure, and the two countries remain major partners in trade, aid and defence. London is also home to a large Nigerian diaspora of about 300,000 people.<\/p>\n
Nigeria\u2019s presidency said the visit signalled a \u201crenewed chapter\u201d and reflected a shared commitment to \u201cadvancing trade and strengthening diplomatic ties\u201d.<\/p>\n
Calling the visit \u201chistoric\u201d, London announced Nigerian companies, including banks, are expanding operations and creating hundreds of jobs in the UK, strengthening it as a global hub for African business.<\/p>\n
Nigerian flags and Union Jacks<\/h2>\n
King Charles and Queen Camilla greeted the president and his wife in Windsor, west of London, as artillery fired salutes.<\/p>\n
Both Nigerian flags and Union Jacks fluttered amid the procession.<\/p>\n
The Nigerian president and his wife earlier chatted with heir-to-the-throne Prince William and his wife Catherine, at a hotel in the town.<\/p>\n
The party then rode in carriages to the historic Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n
Later, the king and queen showed the president and first lady items from the UK\u2019s colonial rule of Nigeria, which existed until 1960.<\/p>\n
Later on Wednesday evening, a lavish state banquet took place.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Missing from the official schedule is the traditional meeting between the visiting head of state and the British opposition.<\/p>\n
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, who is of Nigerian descent, has repeatedly publicly criticised the country she was raised in over corruption and violence.<\/p>\n
The last Nigerian state visit to the UK took place in 1989, although Tinubu was received by Charles in September 2024.<\/p>\n
Before the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 2022, Charles also visited Nigeria four times as prince of Wales.<\/p>\n
Tinubu\u2019s visit went ahead, despite a deadly bombing in northeastern Nigeria\u2019s Borno State on Monday, which killed 23 people<\/a> and injured more than 100, with the president condemning the attacks and insisting \u201cNigeria will not succumb to fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aljazeera.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With trade between the two countries at a record high, Charles is using the two-day visit to highlight the pair\u2019s deep cultural and commercial links. Published On 18 Mar 202618 Mar 2026 The UK\u2019s King Charles III has welcomed Nigerian President Bola Tinubu at Windsor Castle in the first state visit by the leader of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2336112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[377539,26961,21738,349076,27727,452505],"class_list":["post-2336111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-africa","tag-europe","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-united-kingdom","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Nigerias-President-Tinubu-meets-royals-in-UK-state-visit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336113,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336111\/revisions\/2336113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}