List of Brazilian ambassadors in Nigeria

The Brazilian embassy is located in Abuja , which replaced Lagos as the Nigerian capital in 1991 . The ambassador is also regularly accredited to the government in Porto-Novo , Benin , and was in the Kingdom of Dahomey before 1990 .

Appointed / Accredited	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited during the government of	Leave post
1960	Alberto da Costa e Silva	Alberto da Costa e Silva was assistant to the Brazilian ambassador in Lisbon, Francisco Negrâo, who was sent by the Itarmaraty to represent Brazil at the independence celebrations.	Juscelino Kubitschek	Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
1963	Antonio Carlos de Souza Tavares	Chargé d'affaires	João Goulart	Nnamdi Azikiwe
1963	Luiz de Souza Bandeira	Chargé d'affaires	João Goulart	Nnamdi Azikiwe
1963	Bernardino Raymundo da Silva	Chargé d'affaires	João Goulart	Nnamdi Azikiwe
1963	Wilson Alves de Souza	Chargé d'affaires	João Goulart	Nnamdi Azikiwe
1963	Arnaldo Rigueira	Chargé d'affaires	João Goulart	Nnamdi Azikiwe
Dec 6, 1963	José Osvaldo de Meira Penna		João Goulart	Nnamdi Azikiwe	March 6, 1965
1965	Arnaldo Leão Marques	Chargé d'affaires	Humberto Castelo Branco	Nnamdi Azikiwe
1965	Lael Simoes Barbosa Soares	Chargé d'affaires	Humberto Castelo Branco	Nnamdi Azikiwe
1965	Arnaldo Leão Marques	Chargé d'affaires	Humberto Castelo Branco	Nnamdi Azikiwe	1967
1967	Pedro Fernando Machado Polzin	Chargé d'affaires	Artur da Costa e Silva	Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi	1968
1968	Helcio Tavares Pires	Chargé d'affaires	Artur da Costa e Silva	Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi	1969
1969	Pedro Fernando Machado Polzin	Chargé d'affaires	Emílio Garrastazu Médici	Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi	1970
1970	Cyro Gabriel do Espirito Santo Cardoso		Emílio Garrastazu Médici	Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
1970	Pedro Fernando Machado Polzin	Chargé d'affaires	Emílio Garrastazu Médici	Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi	1971
1971	Hersyl Castello Branco de Pereira Franco	Chargé d'affaires	Emílio Garrastazu Médici	Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
Oct 13, 1971	Paulo do Rio-Branco Nabuco de Gouvéa	(* April 28, 1918 in Bagé ), 1940 consul third class, 1942 vice consul in Cape Town .	Emílio Garrastazu Médici	Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi	Apr 20, 1973
Jan. 1, 1975	Geraldo de Heraclito Lima		Ernesto Geisel	Murtala Mohammed	Aug 11, 1975
Aug 12, 1975	Paulo Dias Pereira	Chargé d'affaires	Ernesto Geisel	Murtala Mohammed	21 Sep 1975
22 Sep 1975	Geraldo de Heraclito Lima	from April 1977 also accredited in Dahomey	Ernesto Geisel	Murtala Mohammed	1983
1983	Fernando Abbot Galvão		João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo	Muhammadu Buhari	1987
Jan. 22, 1988	Brian Michael Fraser Neele		José Sarney	Ibrahim Babangida
Jan. 17, 1995	Geraldo Affonso Muzzi	Chargé d'affaires	Fernando Henrique Cardoso	Ernest Shonekan	2000
Aug 31, 2001	Carlos Alberto Ferreira Guimarães	appointed Ambassador to Benin on May 27, 2003	Fernando Henrique Cardoso	Olusegun Obasanjo
Dec 1, 2005	Pedro Luiz Rodrigues	Appointed ambassador to Chad on December 20, 2006 .	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	Olusegun Obasanjo
Oct 1, 2008	Ana Cândida Perez		Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	Umaru Yar'Adua
Oct 8, 2012	João André Pinto Dias Lima		Dilma Rousseff	Goodluck Jonathan

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jerry Dávila, Hotel Tropico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980. P. 67
2. ↑ Geraldo Affonso Muzzi
3. ↑ from February 12, 2003 also in Benin, August 31, 2001, Carlos Alberto Ferreira Guimarães
4. ↑ December 20, 2006, Pedro Luiz Rodrigues
5. ↑ October 1, 2008, Ana Cândida Perez  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ October 8, 2012, João André Pinto Dias Lima  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.