anonimi:


That is your conclusion, which has absolutely nothing to do with all that I have written on this subject. If you know that it does, then please point out the exact words I wrote from which you drew your conclusion.

It seemed implicit. However apologies if I have misunderstood you. Perhaps you are saying we have given them the right to treat us that way.

sylve11:



I am not against Peter Obi in anyway or form, but how is he going to strengthen the Nigerian passport if given the chance to become the president of Nigeria?

That is for him to solve. Nigerians could have been holding him to his words and demanding answers at the same time but right now, nobody can hold Tinubu accountable for anything because he didn't promise anything.

DeepSight:
It seemed implicit. However apologies if I have misunderstood you. Perhaps you are saying we have given them the right to treat us that way.

That is exactly what I said.

They will make exemptions for people who THEY feel have a compelling reason to be in their country. However it is purely their prerogative.

anonimi:


That is exactly what I said.

They will make exemptions for people who THEY feel have a compelling reason to be in their country. However it is purely their prerogative.

That it is their prerogative is beyond cavil. No one disputes that. In fact they dont have to give a reason.
But refusing such a person especially with the excuse that they will run away, is just insulting, unnecessary and frankly stupid. Thats my view.

But I understand you, no worries.

PS: When you say "compelling reason" you make it sound like it must be an emergency or a national security matter. No. It is not so. People go on holidays for example. Tourism, etc.

DeepSight:
That it is their prerogative is beyond cavil. No one disputes that. In fact they dont have to give a reason.
But refusing such a person especially with the excuse that they will run away, is just insulting, unnecessary and frankly stupid. Thats my view.

But I understand you, no worries.

PS: When you say "compelling reason" you make it sound like it must be an emergency or a national security matter. No. It is not so. People go on holidays for example. Tourism, etc.

Compelling reason for me in this regard means that the country will receive a greater benefit from the presence of the foreigner in their country than the cost of having him around. Benefits are not just direct costs. And costs are not monetary only.

Santalpharay:


So for your mind you don't know why the youths of a country abandon their father land to look for greener pastures elsewhere?. I know you know, but keep pretending.

If you blame the government for your criminality in another country, then you must be congenitally stupid.

If you leave your country because your government is bad, while committing crime in the country you JAPA to?
Is their government bad too?

You can get a good job and live a decent life over there but you chose to go into crime because it is your hereditary.

anonimi:


Compelling reason for me in this regard means that the country will receive a greater benefit from the presence of the foreigner in their country than the cost of having him around. Benefits are not just direct costs. And costs are not monetary only.

Well, not to push the matter further, let us end it on this note. There is much benefit to wealthy countries from tourists (and medical tourists) as well as from HNIs even from poor countries. Not just HNIs but talented and skilled people.

If you wish to deny a person a visa, you dont have to give an absurd and insulting reason.

Thats as far as I can push the topic.

Pleasant speaking.

Racoon:
To imagine that this man is a former diplomatic rep of this nation to Australia beats imagination. Was he expelled for breech of diplomatic relations in the time past? The damage done to Nigeria's image and reputation under this government is gonna produce long time ripple effects

Is it Australia or Austria?

I know the youtuber you are making reference to _____Tayo Aina

Am I right??

Gadafii:
A
traveling blogger narrated how he spent over $150k to get another citizenship and passport in another country that allows him travel the world without restriction and myriads of checks and suspicious looks he gets when ever he presents his Nigerian passport at airports and Nigerians were in his comment section swearing for him that he's not patriotic and all.

A move any sane Nigeria who can afford it will make, even in Nigeria we discriminate ourselves, thinking the world is not watching, imagine someone that lives and work in Lagos, pay tax to Lagos govt and all, but when it's time to vote, that's when they remember he's not lagosian, and he's advised to go home, you go to hospital to get medical care, without questioning where the doctor is from, but election time they all remember who's who😅😅

Nigeria don cast walai

RodgersAkpafu:

oh please shut your mouth
pls
under NO guise should a former diplomatic passport holder be denied visa esp to the country he once represented his country in.....
No country will dare deny Blinken or any of his cohorts visa even after they have served their time in the US State dept and gone home....

You guys should stop rationalising rubbish

Stop frothing at the mouth and reconnect your brain for a moment.

Been an ex-diplomat does not necessarily grant you special status over other regular travelers. If the diplomat was indicted for a crime or anything shady while he was serving his term as ambassador, he would not be granted reentry to the country or to any of the other 28 European countries covered by the Schengen visa. It doesn't matter whether that individual is the US ambassador or the ambassador of Mars. The same country that reportedly denied a former diplomat a visa is granting visas to regular Nigerians like you and I on a daily basis. I say again, the former ambassador has not told the whole story behind the visa rejection.

Now run along my friend.

omoadeleye:




So what do you have to say about those doing drugs and doing cultism in abroad?

Because, our government then only buy properties in abroad.

it all bored down to the irresponsibility on the part of Nigerian government over the years, it's just like a case of parent that failed to provide the children with food and other basic needs has no moral right and authority to chide the children for begging for food from strangers, pls show me a citizen of Kuwait, Netherlands, Qatar, Dubai Or luxumburg doing the above?, If there is , their number will be very negligible that they won't be proud to identify themselves with such act, flowing from the above, that means this countries are doing something right that Nigeria is yet to learn or adopt. You can't be having a situation; where someone that embezzled over 100 billions Dollars and stacked it in foreign account in a space of two years of assuming office to be telling his fellow citizens of same country that 62k naira is too much to be paid for his service for 30 days and expect all to be well with such a country.

Psoul:


Is it Australia or Austria?

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Good on him. How you lay your bed is how you lie on it.

Nigeria this, Nigeria that. Nigeria is you and me. There are irresponsible Nigerians everywhere. If you like change passport, passport doesn’t change your personality. Let every Nigerian work on his or herself, Nigeria will be better.

slimfit1:
Your dad's is not going to add anything to their society just like he didn't add anything to his country.

Well said.

If her Dad and many more of his ilk were like the courageous Fela Kuti in fighting or speaking up against corrupt Nigerian rulers, then Nigeria would have become a Mecca and a tourist attraction center and her father will not need to be applying for a Schengen visa to try and escape the trap that Nigeria has now become.

She wants to chase clout by mentioning her Dad was Austrian ambassador instead of Australia. There is no way she does not know the difference between Austria and Australia.

KEVIND:
They think he wants to japa to Austria

Bolanle Olukanni, the daughter of Ambassador Ayoola Olukanni, the former Nigerian Commissioner to Australia between 2011 and 2015 writes:

I just want you guys to know that the Nigeria passport has really been bastardized. My father is a whole retired Ambassador who lived and served in Austria for 3 years. He applied for a schengen visa alongside my mum and the Austrian embassy denied their visas😂😂

Do you realize the lack of diplomacy and courtesy and disregard for a country you have to have to deny a former foreign service officer a visa. A Foreign service officer who served for 30 years and has been to over 30 countries 😂😭😭😭😂

They think he wants to japa to Austria 😭😭 I’m so insulted. Lord


Bolanle Olukanni

Something must have happened during the interview process. It's inconceivable that the Austrian Embassy would deny a former Nigerian Ambassador to that same country and his family visas just like that.

Bolanle hasn't told the full story.

DeepSight:


Was he going there to be a destitute or nuisance? Abeg use your head. Sometimes these embassies employ illiterates who make stupid decisions. It has happened to me years ago, I was working for one of the largest multinationals and was scheduled for a business trip. They denied the visa on the grounds that I might not come back to Nigeria.

An application fully paid for and backed by the multinational.

Needless to say that decision was later reversed.

I have also seen a situation where a seventy year old ex diplomat going for a medical trip was told the same rubbish.

Succinctly stated.

KEVIND:
They think he wants to japa to Austria

Bolanle Olukanni, the daughter of Ambassador Ayoola Olukanni, the former Nigerian Commissioner to Australia between 2011 and 2015 writes:



Bolanle Olukanni

This Bolanle is a disgrace to her father. If she had little sense she ought to know d refusal was due to something d dad must had done when he was ambassador there that blacklisted him, not cos he is a Nigerian. So many ordinary Nigerians get Austrian visas every year. Now she is going to make journalists inquisitive and dig out her father's dirty past. Shame

Ilekokonit:


Well said.

If her Dad and many more of his ilk were like the courageous Fela Kuti in fighting or speaking up against corrupt Nigerian rulers, then Nigeria would have become a Mecca and a tourist attraction center and her father will not need to be applying for a Schengen visa to try and escape the trap that Nigeria has now become.

Exactly

amaniluka:
God bless u

Amen, even Portable collect schengen visa, let them enjoy while there loot last...make then USA, UK etc

Gbam. You said it all. Plus most of the officials in diplomatic service steal a lot of govt money.

slimfit1:
When it rains we all get wet not just poor people. Let us pray that what happened to Jewish people in Germany doesn't happened to us. I have been telling people that it's important we work on ourselves. Work to make our country great. What is your dad going to do there as a matter of fact.
We welcome anything to our country, they dont have to welcome your dad because he was a diplomat.They already have one there now. Protect your country they are protecting there's dont take it in a wrong way. Your dad's is not going to add anything to their society just like he didn't add anything to his country.

slimfit1:


Aslicking don't make me insult you unnecessarily. its my opinion. I don't lick nothing I say things as I see it. If I'm insulting your dad don't be mad. It's just how I see it

You don't see nothing. Go and address your inferiority complex and self-hating habit which you are trying to project on others.

Racoon:
To imagine that this man is a former diplomatic rep of this nation to Australia beats imagination. Was he expelled for breech of diplomatic relations in the time past? The damage done to Nigeria's image and reputation under this government is gonna produce long time ripple effects.

Austria is not Australia.

Sorry but there is no Automatic entitlement to visa for any body based on your past, he is a former \Ambassador, now his privileges have been revoked, and he is a private citizen just like you ad I, and is subject to the normal rules, only in Nigeria where things don't work will he still be driving around with a convoy and 27 hungry gorillas (MoPol) with AK 47's

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hr5kHmd_19c