Nigeria, July 1 -- Saint Lucia's Senate President Alvina Reynolds on Monday highlighted deep ancestral links with Nigeria, citing an 1815 British census showing a majority of enslaved Africans on the island traced their roots to Nigeria and surrounding regions.

Reynolds made the remarks while welcoming President Bola Tinubu to a joint session of Saint Lucia's bicameral parliament, describing his visit as a "historic moment" that revives the island's spiritual and cultural connection to Africa.

"Of the 3,488 Africans enslaved in Saint Lucia then, 34% were Nigerian," she noted, adding that Tinubu's visit reignites "a mission to reunite us with our homeland."

She also honoured Sir Darnley Alexander, a Saint Lucian who served as Nigeria's ...