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| British High Commissioner Andrew Lloyd (R). |
The British High Commission in Nigeria its main office located at Dangote House, Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama District, Abuja. Other offices of the commission are located at 11 Walter Carrington Crescent, Vitoria Island, Lagos, Plot 230, Olu Obasanjo Road, Port Harcourt, and number 3, Independence Way (Alimi Road Entrance) Kaduna.
The High Commission is responsible to the British government for all aspects of relationship between UK and Nigeria.
Andrew Lloyd is the High Commissioner of UK to Nigeria; he is the Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Benin and Permanent Representative to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Lloyd before assuming his current post in Nigeria was Director, Corporate Services, at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) from 2008 to 2010, aiming to reform the way the FCO runs its people, buildings and money.
Until 2008, Lloyd was the FCO Director for Africa – the senior foreign policy adviser on Africa to the British Foreign Secretary, also responsible for leading a network of 30-plus British Embassies, High Commissions and other posts around Africa.
From 2000 to February 2002, he was head of the British Diplomatic Office in Kosovo, leading the British diplomatic effort to end the conflict between Serbia and Kosovo, where he was closely involved in the establishment of Kosovo’s self-government and democratic institutions.
