Algeria-Nigeria relations

President Tebboune receives Nigerian Foreign Minister
ALGIERS- President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune received Sunday in Algiers, the Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama.
The audience was attended by the minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Ramtane Lamamra, and the presidency's chief of Staff, Abdelaziz Khellaf.
 
Signing of a bilateral agreement for creation of Algerian-Nigerian Business Council
ALGIERS-A bilateral agreement on the creation of an Algerian-Nigerian Business Council was signed on Saturday, in Algiers, following a meeting between Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Ramtane Lamamra, and his Nigerian counterpart Geoffrey Onyeama.
“In the presence of the two ministers, a bilateral agreement was signed on the creation of an Algerian-Nigerian Business Council which aims to bring the two countries’ economic operators together and to boost bilateral trade,” said the ministry in a statement. 
The strategic relations between Algeria and Nigeria and prospects to strengthen them in various fields were on the agenda of the one-on-one meeting between the two ministers and the broadened working session, added the source.
In this respect, while welcoming the “excellent and solid” political and historical ties uniting the two countries, the talks between Lamamra and Onyeama reaffirmed the commitment of the two parties to execute the joint structuring projects in the economic field, including the Algiers-Lagos gas pipeline, the trans-Saharan road, and the fiber optic network.
“In addition, and as an extension of their common pan-Africanist commitment, the heads of diplomacy of the two countries discussed current issues at the continental level by reaffirming their convergence on the need to enable Africa to implement its strategic vision in terms of peace, security, and development and to promote its unity against the current tensions in the international relations and the resulting climate of polarization,” the ministry added.
In this regard, Lamamra stressed the need to preserve the commitment of African countries to the principles of non-alignment and to encourage their collective participation in the reconstruction of post-Covid international relations and the conflict in Ukraine.
“We discussed bilateral relations and noted positive developments in this regard. We also discussed the several projects to be carried out to raise the level of Algerian-Nigerian cooperation (...) and raise economic relations up to the same level as the political relations,” said Lamamra at the end of the meeting, stressing “the convergence of views between Algeria and Nigeria on important African issues.”
“From Algeria's point of view, the strategic relationship with Nigeria is an important step in the development of Algeria's relations with the African continent, while working together so that Africa becomes an active part in the future international relations,” he added.
 
Onyeama welcomes quality of Algeria-Nigeria relations 
ALGIERS-The Nigerian Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama welcomed Sunday the quality of bilateral political and economic relations between Algeria and Nigeria.
Algeria and Nigeria "are bound by good relations at the political and economic levels and work to develop and strengthen them further," said Onyeama at the end of the audience granted to him by the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
He said he conveyed to President Tebboune greetings from his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari, and presented him with a report on his meetings with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Ramtane Lamamra during which "we have hailed the quality of good bilateral relations that the two countries are working to develop further.”