FreeGlobe:
Britain has two offices in the north and south west and non in the east who make up majority of their travellers. yeye dey smell. A liaison office atleast should be opened in Enugu asap

django1: Is it not the prerogative of the foreign countries on where they want to open their offices? Why must you people look to blame yorubas again?

FreeGlobe: ^
The question is why is does an ethnic group from the ethnic tripod in Nigeria not have an embassy/liaison office while the rest 2 have 2 each, if tables are turned, will you accept that in SW. And go check figures majority of south easterners travel to Britain, even far more than northerners for instance

django1: Is it not the prerogative of the foreign countries on where they want to open their offices? Why must you people look to blame yorubas again?

superstar1: Once Consular offices are opened in the East, Lagos will suffer as usual and yorubas will gang up against the offices again.

Usually explanation!!!!

waternogetenemy:


For the unaware thought it best to let them know u are yoruba, so they don't mistake u for an easterner starting tribal war.

tpia@:
The only question i have has to do with enugu's location, which is the northern part of the southeast.


I assume enugu is considered a more cosmopolitan part of the region, else the calls should have been for extra consular offices to be more centrally placed.

However, since enugu has the airport, i guess enugu it is.

waternogetenemy:

The foreign countries have to be advised by the chief diplomat of Nigeria his excellence GEJ, the honourable foreign minister, southeast region governing body and Enugu State gov.

Then based on the advise they can reach a decison with their various Heads of State or Parliament on how and when to build such a Consular office in Enugu. Every country on earth ought to have an office in Enugu.

People from the east should not have to travel to other region for consultation before going abroad. This is wrong and criminal. There should be a level playing field. Even key federal agency ought to have offices in the east (Enugu) to aid their operations within the region as relevant.

waternogetenemy:

Ideally onitsha is central but Enugu has the airport and it is more of a centre for administration.

All that is needed is solid and regular railway network to connect all states within the region to enugu within an hour or two at most.

superstar1:

onitsha keh? Never, Osama will first become American President, before that can happen. Enugu is ok or even PH nut abeg no go near that Onitsha at all/

superstar1:

every federal agencies have regional offices and state offices in all the regions and states.

waternogetenemy:

Ideally onitsha is central but Enugu has the airport and it is more of a centre for administration.

All that is needed is solid and regular railway network to connect all states within the region to enugu within an hour or two at most.

waternogetenemy:

I hope they do in the east, becos u will be surprised dey might not. I agree, Onitsha has been abandoned for a long time and needs alot of work. Enugu is working, though still a work in progress, but a better host.

superstar1:

they do. it is the policy of FGN to have Federal Secretariat in all the states capitals. Some states encourage them by providing infrastructures for the agencies pending the time FGN will construct a complex for them in that particular state.

gurnam:

How can you say Onitsha is ideally central.....?

Awka or Owerri should take consideration if it should be based on accessibility and centrality....but Enugu is far more preferred.

Bpriest: Most if not all your states have been blacklisted by the same foreign countries, Abeg forget about it . SE is not fit for human life
The kidnapping capital of West Africa

chima12: Enugu state govt has a role to play in bringing consular/visa offices to Enugu.we also have distinguished Igbo sons and daughters who have made a mark for themselves internationally,this is where they can come in silently and help bring some of these consular/visa offices to enugu.those who have access to such prominent Igbo sons and daughters need to talk to them about it so they can key in.enugu state govt should provide some prime estate for office and residential accommodation in other to lure some of the nations especially u.s.a,germany and some of the asia nations like china,japan and korea into opening visa/consular offices in enugu.

DerideGull: In the case of sudden disintegration of Nigeria, Ndigbo must not hope to lookup to USA or Britain as allies. When Susan Rice was undersecretary of state department, a goup of Igbo organization visited her office and demanded USA's consulate to be opened in southeastern region of Nigeria. All the group got from the state department were promises yet no consulate was ever opened.

I am not surprised that Britain has two offices in southwestern and northern region respectively. After all, Britain joined Nigeria in prosecuting a war on Biafra while USA stood akimbo.

Gorrbachev:

France will gladly open a consular office or maybe a mini Paris in Enugu since the were Biafra's major arms supplier but denied them in public duering the war.

Emperor_00S: It doesn't matter who the minister is, Eastern governors should work with FG / the minister ( who ever ) and lobby for visa liaison offices to be set-up in Enugu.


This would make the Enugu International Airpot to be highly viable.

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