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kikake:
Consolations.

It is sign of a shrinking Nigeria.

Even smaller countries open up more embassies - not closing.

Boko has caused huge capital flight/loss from/for Nigeria in the last 8 years of Boko operation.

Those who run Nigeria will not tell you the truth about how Nigeria is getting poorer, despite oil revenues.

How about the huge cost of maintaining this not so important consolations in some countries?

Pavore9:
Most of them get bad mouth!

Thats true sha. I even heard that some of them do demand for 'egunje' b4 attending to Nigerians.

obowunmi:
you've never been to an embassy. bruuuuuuuhh..... .

Hahaha...did I hear you say that? Well I just asked you a question....would you say that if you or your person worked in any of those closed embassy?

FLYFIRE:
Hahaha...did I hear you say that? Well I just asked you a question....would you say that if you or your person worked in any of those closed embassy?

I know people that work at the embassy but I don't really care for them.

Mandesz:
I'm here to check if that of republic of Biafra is included

Nigeria did not, does not, and will not have diplomatic relations with that contiree.

olokeded:
The Federal Government has approved the closure of five foreign missions and embassies, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama said.

Onyeama told newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, but he did not name the affected embassies or missions, but said the process for closure was underway and was also subject to the approval of the president.

“We do not want to indicate the embassies that will be closed yet because we are in the process of submitting the proposals, the cost analysis and also the political analysis we did to the president.

“When he sees that, he may or may not want to close some, so we have not yet reached the stage of closing some,” he said.

The minister also reiterated that the closing missions abroad were “extremely expensive”.

“The expense, costs of closing embassies is so high and prohibitive but in the long run it will more economical.”

The minister, on April 10, told NAN the closure of Nigerian missions abroad is inevitable.

He admitted that it is expensive to close a country’s embassy but quickly added that in the long run the
policy will be beneficial to Nigerians.

Onyeama stressed that the reduction of Nigeria’s foreign missions remains on the agenda of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

Buhari had said at the inception of his administration that the Federal Government will reduce the number of missions to save cost.

Nigeria currently has 119 foreign missions.

Onyeama said: “The government is following up on that and we have sort of pre­pared the roadmap; we have started the implementation of that and made also recom­mendations in that context.

“Paradoxically, closing missions is extremely expensive. At first sight it seems ob­vious that you close it you are saving cost but you will actually find that the cost of closing is almost prohibitive.

“But in the long run it will be cheaper, but in the imme­diate and short term it is ex­pensive but we have started the process,” he said.(NAN)

http://www.metronaija.com/2017/05/nigeria-closes-5-foreign-missions.html

closing embassies is the order of the day
https://www.google.se/amp/s/www.naij.com/amp/907477-economy-bad-shape-tension-buhari-shuts-9-foreign-embassies-see-list.html

cocolacec:
The affected missions are the Permanent Mission to the D-8 in Istanbul, Turkey; the Africa-South America Cooperation Forum (ASACOF) in Caracas, Venezuela; embassies in Belgrade, Serbia; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Kiev, Ukraine; Prague, Czech Republic; the High Commission in Singapore as well as Consulates in Buea, Cameroon and Sao Paulo in Brazil.

All those are more than 5

RaptorX:
All those are more than 5

Sorry about that i quoted old news on this site

https://www.google.se/amp/s/www.naij.com/amp/907477-economy-bad-shape-tension-buhari-shuts-9-foreign-embassies-see-list.html

kikake:
Consolations.

It is sign of a shrinking Nigeria.

Even smaller countries open up more embassies - not closing.

Boko has caused huge capital flight/loss from/for Nigeria in the last 8 years of Boko operation.

Those who run Nigeria will not tell you the truth about how Nigeria is getting poorer, despite oil revenues.

I don't know about "shrinking" but this is called tightening your belt and living according to your means.

Close what exactly?? Embassies that do not work or give even the basic needs of it citizen abroad??

Imagine an embassy unable to process new or renew passports?? Instead they tell you some bullshit of

going back to Nigeria or going to Beijing just to renew a passport?


Nigeria is a joke

Any Mission dat irrelevance to move Nigeria forward be closed

More should be closed once their existence can not be economically justified.