Brandon Hudspeth confirmed as new US Consul General in Lagos

The United States Consulate in Lagos on Friday confirmed the accomplishment of its caller Consul General, Brandon Hudspeth, to statesman a three-year tenure. 

Hudspeth, a vocation subordinate of the Senior Foreign Service, succeeds Consul General Rick Swart, who retired from the U.S. Foreign Service successful July. 

Now the apical U.S. authoritative crossed the 17 Southern states of Nigeria, Hudspeth previously served as the Political-Economic Section Chief of the Lagos Consulate from 2020 to 2022.  

In his remarks, Hudspeth said he knows the spot of the U.S.-Nigeria concern and “the bonzer energy, ingenuity, and entrepreneurial tone that Nigerians and Americans share.”

The CG expressed readiness to expand U.S.-Nigeria trade and investment, thrust innovation, fortify collaboration successful the exertion and originative industries, and make caller opportunities.

Hudspeth’s diplomatic acquisition spans Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Washington. He recently served arsenic the Deputy Chief of Mission astatine the U.S. Embassy successful Windhoek, Namibia. 

The caller envoy earlier served as Political-Economic Section Chief successful ...