By mid-2008, Filipino residents in the country had increased to an estimated 4,500, up from 3,790 in December 2005.
[1][2] In 1930, colonial Nigeria's census showed four Chinese immigrants residing there.
Hong Kong investors started opening factories in Nigeria as early as the 1950s.
By 1999, that number had grown to 5,800, including 630 from Taiwan and 1,050 from Hong Kong.
[3] Filipinos arrived in Nigeria as early as the 1970s; the Philippine Barangay Society of Nigeria was founded in 1973 in an effort to coordinate the various Filipino community organisations that had already sprouted up around the country.