About: List of Australian High Commissioners to Nigeria

The High Commissioner of Australia to Nigeria is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the High Commission of the Commonwealth of Australia in Abuja, Nigeria. The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and is currently vacant, with the head of mission being Jonathan Ball as acting high commissioner and Chargé d’Affaires since July 2022. The ambassador also holds non-resident accreditation as High Commissioner to The Gambia (1985–2004, since 2008), and Gabon (1988–1989; since 2010), and as ambassador to Benin (since 2010), Cameroon (since 2002), and Niger (since 2009), and as representative to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Non-resident accreditation was also previously held