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Buhari I + IIMinister of Foreign Affairs· November 2015 — May 2023

Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama

Foreign Minister for both Buhari terms. Former WIPO Deputy Director-General.

The record

Geoffrey Onyeama (b. 1956, Enugu) — son of Justice Charles Onyeama of the International Court of Justice — was Deputy Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization before his appointment.

He led Nigeria's positions through the African Continental Free Trade Area negotiations (signed 7 July 2019) and the diplomatic response to the xenophobic attacks in South Africa of September 2019, which prompted Nigeria's largest peacetime evacuation of its citizens abroad.

Sources

  • African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement — signature record
  • Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs — Annual Reports, 2015–2022
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.