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Ambassador Eniola Olaitan AJAYI

Head of Mission, Embassy of Nigeria in Budapest, Hungary

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Ambassador (Dr) Eniola Ajayi is an Optometrist/Ocular Pathologist by profession and she owns one of… (more)

Ambassador (Dr) Eniola Ajayi is an Optometrist/Ocular Pathologist by profession and she owns one of the best-equipped eye clinics of Nigeria in Lagos, the largest city of the country. She was born in Ipoti Ekiti, Ekiti State on 18th January, 1965 and graduated at the University of Benin, Bachelor of Science in Optometry (1986), University of London, Master of Philosophy in Ocular Pathology (1994) and University of Benin, Doctor of Optometry (2002). She served her home state, Ekiti as the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology between 2010 and 2013 and as the Commissioner for Environment between 2013 and 2015. She presented her Letters of Credence to the President of Hungary on 1st December, 2017 as the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Hungary. She is also concurrently accredited to the Republic of Croatia, Republic of Serbia and to Bosnia and Herzegovina. All the above-mentioned areas are in the forefront of her activity as an Ambassador, and in her current position, she is striving to bring Nigeria and the countries she is accredited to as close to each other as possible by developing cooperation in these areas and more. In addition to the above priorities, she considers Agriculture, Solid MInerals & Steel, the Oil and Gas Sector, as well as Information Technology as the key areas where the development of bilateral cooperation between Nigeria and Hungary as well as her other countries of concurrent accreditation have really great potentials. The main priorities of her journey into the world of diplomacy are: (a) citizen's diplomacy; (b) economic diplomacy and (c) social diplomacy, these areas constituting the focus of her philosophy of 3I's: Inclusion, Investment and Image Building.