Anybody knows whether our missions overseas have access phone numbers other than those listed on their websites?

I have heard and read about complaints of Nigerians concerning poor and snobbish attitudes of those who work in our embassies.

Recently, I had a need to contact the Nigerian Consulate in New York by phone.

My people, I called several times in a day for 3 days.

Each time, an automated voice would run through the usual intro and ask you to press a number that corresponds to your problem area.

Each time, instead of connecting me to a definitive staff, the same voice would repeat the same intro.

Or a new voice would tell you "there is nobody to pick your call, bye bye," click and the line goes dead just like that.

I had to try the numbers one by one until, luckily, somebody picked up.

It is this same consulate that foreigners call for visa and other information before coming to Nigeria. And their impression? You guess.

One wonders whether the phones are for mere decoration and why a public officer would not sit down in his/her office and do his/her job.

The new administration needs to shine its torch on our missions abroad and carry out serious sanitization therein.

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Hmmmm, Nigerians? we are all the same!
when you want something and people are "behaving one kain" in giving you that normal thing, we will complain to high heaven, but wjen it is our turn to give somebody a normal thing, then.....

sinkhole:
Hmmmm, Nigerians? we are all the same!
when you want something and people are "behaving one kain" in giving you that normal thing, we will complain to high heaven, but wjen it is our turn to give somebody a normal thing, then.....

If you had the same experience, how would you have felt?