November 2017 marked two years since most ministers in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet assumed office.

PREMIUM TIMES, in 2016 reviewed the performances of the ministers after their first year in office with many of them getting average scores.

Two years down the line, this newspaper, again, in three earlier reports assessed the performances of 18 ministers based on their promises before they assumed office.

Read the first, second and third part of the report here, here and here.

Here is the midterm scorecard of the final set of ministers in this concluding report.

State Minister: Khadijat Bukar Ibrahim

Promises:

-To reform and rationalise Nigeria’s foreign embassies and consulates.

-To improve global business relations for Nigerians.

-Cooperation with neighbouring states and the African Union to fight terrorism in Nigeria.

-Support the implementation of relevant international instruments on anti-corruption and illicit funds transfers across international borders, especially within the framework of the ECOWAS, the African Union and the United Nations.

-To make Nigeria’s foreign policy thrust focus on security, governance (anti-corruption) and the economy.

Achievements:

-Nigeria has improved its relations with nations of the world. It is partnering with other countries to guarantee free movement of people to boost economic potentials of Africa.

-Prompt reaction to the reports of slave trade and imprisonment of Nigerians in Libya. Summoned Nigeria’s charge d’Affairs in Tripoli, Libya, over the ongoing reports of trading of Nigerians in the North African country.

-Repatriation of Nigerians trapped in Libya with the assistance and provision of logistics from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union.

-Taking a definite stand on the status of Taiwan. The minister declared that “Taiwan will not have any diplomatic representation in Nigeria and asked the Tawian trade office in Abuja to move to Lagos and “function as a trade mission with skeletal staff.”

-Election of Nigerian representatives into various world organisations. They include the UN Human Rights Council, Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). The elections show that Nigeria enjoys a lot of goodwill across the world.

Failures:

-Despite promises of reform and rationalisation, most of the 110 Nigerian missions and embassies abroad are still a national embarrassment as they still groan under financial difficulties. Some of them have not paid salaries for months and are owing huge debts.

-Looted funds belonging to Nigeria are still trapped in foreign banks, including the Abacha’s loot.

-Slow response to the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa prompting the Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa to take up the challenge, some say illegally. Mrs. Dabiri-Erewa also issued travel advisory urging caution for Nigerians travelling to the U.S. All this drew the ire of the minister.

-Slow response when President Trump of the U.S signed his first executive order widely interpreted in some quarters as potentially curtailing the tenure and cost of U.S. visas for Nigerians. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/254503-analysis-buharis-ministers-scorecard-two-years-concluding-part.html

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Same here bro.

Wailers will disagree on the achievement but agree with the failures.

Mostly ipob wailers.

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