City Hall Flag raising marks Nigerian Independence Day
Tuesday 1 October 2024 The Acting High Commissioner of Nigeria to Canada, Ambassador Obioma Nzewuji, led a team of officers and permanent staff to the City Hall in Ottawa on…
US Embassy hosts 2024 Independence Day celebrations
Thursday 4 July 2024 U.S. Ambassador David L. Cohen and Mrs. Rhonda R. Cohen, hosted the Ottawa 2024 Independence Day Celebration of the United States of America. The event located…
African Ambassadors send off Nigerian High Commissioner Asekun
December 9, 2023 African Group of Ambassadors in Canada bid farewell to outgoing Nigerian High Commissioner Adeyinka Asekun By Joy Osiagwu, Editorial Associate The African Group of Ambassadors and High…
Jamaicans celebrate independence anniversary
Wednesday, 21 September, 2022 Jamaican High Commission hosts 60th anniversary reception Some 100 guests were at the Lantern Room of the National Arts Centre on Elgin Street to celebrate the…
Rwandans celebrate 2016 National Day in Ottawa
4 July 2016 In celebration of Rwanda’s Independence and Liberation Day, Charge D’Affaires Shakilla K. Umutoni hosted a reception for fellow diplomats and a select group of guests at the…
Cameroon celebrates National Day in Ottawa
19 May 2016 To mark Cameroon’s national day, High Commissioner His Excellency Solomon Azoh-Mbi and his wife, Mercy, hosted a reception at the Château Laurier. The theme of the celebration…
Send-off party for out-going Nigerian diplomats
Sunday 13 September St. Andrews Church on Kent Street was filled to almost capacity as Nigerians and their friends, some from as far away as Toronto and Montreal assembled for an inter-denominational service…
Nigerian Professional & Business Network honours Mandela
Saturday 21 December 2013, saw over fifty Nigerians and friends of Nigeria gathered at the Sheraton Hotel on Albert Street to pay homage to the late apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela….
South Africa’s Deputy President visits Ottawa
From November 25 to 27, 2013, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa H.E. Kgalema Motlanthe was on a three-day working visit to Canada as part of a broad…
Angolans celebrate National Day
On November 13, 2013, H. E. Ambassador Agostinho Tavares da Silva Neto and his wife, Prudência de Sousa Carneiro da Silva, hosted a reception at the Chateau Laurier on the occasion of…