The Nigerian Diplomat Series: Nigeria’s Foreign Relations With The Gambia [2020 Decade]

Recently updated on February 19th, 2023 at 12:57 pm

The Nigerian Diplomat Series: Nigeria’s Foreign Relations With The Gambia [2020 Decade] is a reliable assessment which documents, promotes and celebrates the positive diplomatic relations and contributions by Nigeria to The Gambia and her people.

business & economy

2021: Nigeria Exports to Gambia was US$1.47 Million during 2021, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade.

Energy & Power

February 2023: The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has on February 17, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Gambia National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) on collaboration between both companies on frontier exploration, and other opportunities to promote energy security. The statement read: “Areas of interest include new frontier exploration; crude oil market expansion opportunities and transfer of technology towards a quest for more energy security for both countries and the West African sub-region.”
December 2022: The NNPCL signed an MoU with Gambia and four other countries on the Nigeria-Morocco Gas (Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone).

Health & Environment

August 2021: Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with it’s Gambian counterpart, Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Gambia (DLEAG) – on cooperation in combating illicit production, manufacture, and trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors.

Security & Law

July 2021: A Memorandum of Understanding between the Governments of Nigeria and the Gambia on Military Cooperation to tackle insurgency -boosting the existing joint military manoeuvrability, operability as well as tactical and technical synergy, enhanced networking in intelligence sharing, capacity building and robust counter trans-national strategy.

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The Nigerian Diplomat Series [2020 Decade]