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**BREAKING NEWS:** *Tinubu Cancels Planned Trip to China After Reported ‘Cold Reception’ from Beijing*

President **Bola Ahmed Tinubu** has reportedly cancelled his much-anticipated trip to China after sources within the **Ministry of Foreign Affairs** revealed that **no top Chinese official was willing to meet with him** during the visit.

According to diplomatic insiders, the trip — initially planned as part of a **bilateral trade and investment mission** — was quietly shelved following what has been described as a “cold reception” from the Chinese government.

A senior Foreign Affairs source disclosed that the President’s advisers recommended suspending the journey after it became clear that **Beijing had not confirmed any high-level engagements**.

> “The President was advised to suspend the trip after Chinese officials failed to confirm any high-level meetings. It would have been embarrassing to arrive without a proper reception,” the source said.

The trip was expected to focus on **infrastructure financing, technology partnerships, and debt restructuring**, with several ministers and business leaders initially slated to join the presidential delegation.

While there has been **no official statement** from the Presidency regarding the cancellation, diplomatic observers believe the development may signal **growing strains** in Nigeria–China relations, especially amid recent global economic realignments and Nigeria’s ongoing search for new foreign investment partners.

The reported snub has sparked reactions across political and diplomatic circles, with some analysts urging the government to **reassess its foreign policy approach** and strengthen relations with countries that “value mutual respect and strategic engagement.”

Anybody or institution that carries fake news and negative propagandas against Nigeria needs to be facing prosecution. Government needs to be serious with this things .

This is another big lie from Agulu media, if you like send your Agulu Lamba to represent us in China.

China is a serious country
They don't entertain frivolities...
They will never turn down Rewanda or South Africa.

IJAYA001:
This is another big lie from Agulu media, if you like send your Agulu Lamba to represent us in China.

It’s no longer Sahara Reporters


imagine the purveyors of Lagos–Ibadan Expressway propaganda looking elsewhere and accusing others of the very lies, falsehoods, and propaganda they are notoriously and internationally known for

You are still in 2023 elections pain.
Sorry oo

Oohhh maybe they think he's coming to ask for loan! 😂

China is an 18 trillion dollar GDP country, it really has no business holding high level talks with the leader of a 180bn GDP country except they just want to look nice ...

princepee:
China is a serious country
They don't entertain frivolities...
They will never turn down Rewanda or South Africa.

Incredible how they package what knowledgeable and informed folks know are senseless and illogical lies for ignorant and hateful Nigerians, who detest their own nation, to begin hyperventilating over.

It makes sense to you and other haters China will ever have "cold reception" for her second biggest trading Partner in Africa, behind South Africa , she is seeking to deepen trade ties with? Lol.

You lot are simply doing yourselves and stunting your own cerebral development carrying unobjective hate around for whatever/whoever you dislike.

FarahAideed:
China is an 18 trillion dollar GDP country, it really has no business holding high level talks with the leader of a 180bn GDP country except they just want to look nice ...

Nigeria is China's secons biggest trading partner in the continent of Africa hosting 54 Nations.

The Chinese themselves have always officially confirmed how important Nigeria is to them and how they believe they can do far greater level of bilaterally beneficial trading with Nigeria and will be aggressively seeking to do so.

Yet you are here peddling hogwash because of unpatriotic, irrational and unobjective hatred of Nigeria and other Nigerians, not from your ethnic group, you believe prevent you and yours from being top Dogs.

You guys are something else.

Daddyk87:
You are still in 2023 elections pain.
Sorry oo

Precisely. That is where they will remain. I.e bitterly nursing hatred against others because of their 2023 election loss.

Same as they have never gotten over their Civil war loss decades ago and must hatefully demonize those they blame as responsible , i.e Awolowo and Yorubas, forever as long as they live and breathe.

No foreign investor wans to associate themselves with an incompetent President like Tinubu

princepee:
China is a serious country
They don't entertain frivolities...
They will never turn down Rewanda or South Africa.

I will never take my own precious time to teach you how to spell your rewinder or what you have there properly.

IJAYA001:
This is another big lie from Agulu media, if you like send your Agulu Lamba to represent us in China.

Lol. That much is clear to any sensible Nigerians who is knowledgeable and can think logically. If China does not appreciate her second biggest trading partner in Africa ,consisting of 54 nations, then who exactly does China value in the continent? Togo, Ghana or Mali?

Haters will package senseless fake news and bigger haters will begin hyperventilating. So predictable.

Below is evidence China's trading with Nigeria has increased by a commendable 34.7%, for the first seven months of 2025, more than was recorded for the same period last year.

In civilised nations haters would need to make it make sense but not Nigeria they know has a particularly hateful group of people always prone to receiving fake news, like Buhari dead and replaced by Jubrin, with excitement and ecstasy.

Tochitee:
Anybody or institution that carries fake news and negative propagandas against Nigeria needs to be facing prosecution. Government needs to be serious with this things .

You think everyone is like APC and Tinubu's incompetent Government, that thrive in lies and propaganda?

So this happened to the German Foreign Minister last week and his China visit was cancelled
Bitter Obidients decided to adopt the story to soothe their pain
I sorry for they

WizardOfNG:
Nigeria is China's secons biggest trading partner in the continent of Africa hosting 54 Nations.

The Chinese themselves have always officially confirmed how important Nigeria is to them and how they believe they can do far greater level of bilaterally beneficial trading with Nigeria and will be aggressively seeking to so.

Yet you are here peddling hogwash because of unpatriotic, irrational and unobjective hatred of Nigeria and other Nigerians, not from your ethnic group, you believe prevent you and yours from being top Dogs.

You guys are something else.

I have noticed you love to live in denial .

Nigeria is not important enough for a Chinese president to stop what he is doing to receive their president , the losses he will accrue during a single state visit is more than what China can gain from Nigerian in 5 years ...There are are no emotions in international trade ..Instead of Tinubu to go there a meet the Junior minister assigned to receive him he is postponing and still living in delusions of grandeur ..

Find attached the countries that can make Chinese leader stand up from bed ...Nigeria is not among

The whole world knows Nigerians are going through a lot in the hands of our so called leaders

WizardOfNG:
Nigeria is China's secons biggest trading partner in the continent of Africa hosting 54 Nations.

The Chinese themselves have always officially confirmed how important Nigeria is to them and how they believe they can do far greater level of bilaterally beneficial trading with Nigeria and will be aggressively seeking to so.

Yet you are here peddling hogwash because of unpatriotic, irrational and unobjective hatred of Nigeria and other Nigerians, not from your ethnic group, you believe prevent you and yours from being top Dogs.

You guys are something else.

Nigeria is only important as a dump site for Chinese products. Nothing more. Nigeria is not a sizable partner to china in all ramifications and Nigeria has nothing to offer china except being it's dump site

WizardOfNG:
Nigeria is China's secons biggest trading partner in the continent of Africa hosting 54 Nations.

The Chinese themselves have always officially confirmed how important Nigeria is to them and how they believe they can do far greater level of bilaterally beneficial trading with Nigeria and will be aggressively seeking to so.

Yet you are here peddling hogwash because of unpatriotic, irrational and unobjective hatred of Nigeria and other Nigerians, not from your ethnic group, you believe prevent you and yours from being top Dogs.

You guys are something else.

In other words, Nigeria is the second biggest importer of Chinese goods.

DonEd:
In other words, Nigeria is the second biggest importer of Chinese goods.

If you don't have anything sensible to say then stay silent instead of doubling down on your own ignorance and mischief.

Is Nigeria the second largest trading partner to China in the continent of Africa hosting 54 nations?

Yes or no is the simple answer required not whataboutism rubbish about what makes up the trade volume between both nations.

There is a very big difference between Tinubu, Putin and Kim.... I summit by saying Aluta Continua...

FarahAideed:
I have noticed you love to live in denial .

Nigeria is not important enough for a Chinese president to stop what he is doing to receive their president , the losses he will accrue during a single state visit is more than what China can gain from Nigerian in 5 years ...There are are no emotions in international trade ..Instead of Tinubu to go there a meet the Junior minister assigned to receive him he is postponing and still living in delusions of grandeur ..

Find attached the countries that can make Chinese leader stand up from bed ...Nigeria is not among

You are the one ignorantly living in denial. Facts show Nigeria is an important trading partner to China in Africa. It is only hateful folks who will deny that reality.

See what is shown below to note the Chinese themselves elevated trading and bilateral cooperation with Nigeria to a "comprehensive strategic partnership" and stop disturbing us with your unpatriotic and self-hating noise.

What you people are doing is tantamount to contradicting the formal utterance of China. Only desperate haters do that.

Growth in trade: Bilateral trade is expanding, with a 34.7% increase in the first seven months of 2025 compared to the previous year, reaching $15.48 billion.


Key trade goods: Nigeria's primary exports to China include crude oil, gas, and agricultural products, while China exports manufactured goods and other products to Nigeria.

Expanded cooperation: The countries are cooperating beyond trade in sectors such as infrastructure, energy, culture, and education.


Strategic partnership: The partnership was elevated to a "comprehensive strategic partnership" at the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit, further opening opportunities for collaboration.

WizardOfNG:
If you don't have anything sensible to say then stay silent instead of doubling down on your own ignorance and mischief.

Is Nigeria the second largest trading partner to China in the continent of Africa hosting 54 nations?

Yes or no is the simple answer required not whataboutism rubbish about what makes up the trade volume between both nations.

If u can't argue constructively, it simply means u are the ignorant one.

Trading partner implies a two way flow. Please enlighten me, what does Nigeria export to China to make her the second biggest trading partner to China?

Empty vessel.

Tochitee:
Anybody or institution that carries fake news and negative propagandas against Nigeria needs to be facing prosecution. Government needs to be serious with this things .

Tinubu is an embarrassment to Nigeria, Africa and the world at large. Know this and know peace

WizardOfNG:
If you don't have anything sensible to say then stay silent instead of doubling down on your own ignorance and mischief.

Is Nigeria the second largest trading partner to China in the continent of Africa hosting 54 nations?

Yes or no is the simple answer required not whataboutism rubbish about what makes up the trade volume between both nations.

You’re just posting AI yet can’t defend anything…Oga what are we exporting to china? Answer the question

DonEd:
If u can't argue constructively, it simply means u are the ignorant one.

Trading partner implies a two way flow. Please enlighten me, what does Nigeria export to China to make her the second biggest trading partner to China?

Empty vessel.

You should know by now that they only look for pictures of things that hide their ignorance sit with them face to face they can’t tell you one thing they export that makes us valuable to china

Kimo21:
You should know by now that they wonky look for pictures of things that hide their ignorance sit with them face to face they can’t tell you one thing they export that makes us valuable to china

Don't mind the clown

Ruke1991:
[b]Nigeria is only important as a dump site for Chinese products. [/b]Nothing more. Nigeria is not a sizable partner to china in all ramifications and Nigeria has nothing to offer china except being it's dump site

Yoi guys are really amusing. I always wonder how most of you manage your personal lives when it is obvious you are highly ignorant.

Is it the Nigerian government guilty of the bolded in your post or the "developers", like Obi, who go to China to bring containers of cheap and substandard rubbish to flood Nigeria with whereas the Nigerian government's policy is to promote greater manufacturing of goods that will see Nigerians patronise Nigerian-made good more?

In case you don't know, much of Nigeria's import from China include a significant amount of machinery for our infrastructure mining , energy, power generation, health, mechanised farming sector etal.

It is not the Nigerian government that imports cheap and substandard led light, fake plants, cheap accessories etal that are everywhere in Nigeria.

You cannot even seperate the trade the Nigerian government conducts with trade private Nigerian businessmen engage in with Chinese retailers and you are here making ignorant noise.

Kimo21:
You’re just posting AI yet can’t defend anything…Oga what are we exporting to china? Answer the question

Is something wrong with you? Why not dispute information supplied if such is possible for you to do instead of lazily trying to discredit the source of the information?

If you like I can supply non-AI sources if that will make a difference to attackers of the messengers, like you, who lack the intellect to discredit the message validly.

Kimo21:
You’re just posting AI yet can’t defend anything…Oga what are we exporting to china? Answer the question

You dey mind am. , he knows deep down China has no regard for the govt he serves , the Chinese can afford not to deal with Nigeria and it wouldn't affect their economic projections one bit