Abuja's Diplomatic Drive hosts Britain's High Commission to Nigeria where Africa's largest population meets massive British engagement and complex bilateral relationship. The mission coordinates substantial partnership built on Commonwealth membership, British colonial legacy until 1960 independence, English language official status, enormous Nigerian diaspora in UK, oil industry partnerships, and security cooperation combating terrorism. British tourists visit Nigeria minimally despite rich cultural heritage with FCDO advising against travel to many regions due to kidnapping risks, terrorism in northeast, and instability, though Lagos attracts some business travelers and diaspora visits to Africa's entertainment capital. British expats establish significant community in Lagos and Abuja working in oil sector, banking, telecommunications, development organizations, and British Council operations despite security concerns. British businesses engage extensively in Nigeria's oil and gas sector with Shell and BP's major operations, banking and financial services, telecommunications infrastructure, consumer goods manufacturing, and infrastructure development in Africa's largest economy. The High Commission processes enormous visa application volumes from Nigerians seeking UK education, family visits to massive diaspora community, and business travel, coordinates security cooperation addressing Boko Haram terrorism in northeast and kidnapping epidemic affecting expatriates, and facilitates British commercial interests in strategic African powerhouse. Staff support British nationals facing security threats including kidnapping risks requiring crisis response, coordinate with Nigerian authorities on counterterrorism as Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province threaten stability, and maintain fortified presence in purpose-built capital. The mission represents British interests in critically important but challenging African partner where corruption undermines governance, ethnic and religious tensions between Muslim north and Christian south create conflict, oil wealth concentrates while poverty persists, and Nigeria's 200+ million population, economic weight, and regional influence make bilateral relationship essential for British African engagement despite security challenges and human rights concerns about military operations and police brutality.