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

I think this is a good decision at this point of time. No unnecessary spending on stuffs that aren't that vital. There's a lot of more ministries that needs to be scrapped. God bless Nigeria.

E Ku recession ooo...

They shuu do and close buhari's office too.

So we still have minister of foreign affairs, after all the xenophobic attacks. At least the minister of finance is very hard working and that's all we need for now.

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

they couldn't afford to pay staff anyway

and more importantly,

most of those staff were USELESS.

Is this to the good of Nigerians!

Change

It would make sense if we were actually broke.

Bad policy manifests 'badly'

when will they close efcc and dss
Nigeria is just wasting money on this 2 agencies without any result to show for it

Changeeeee

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mikeycharles:
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Is it G for Goat?

The recession in this fvcking country is real.
But the sun shall rise again.....

The embassies are;NIGER, LIBYA, CORSICA, SUDAN and... I forgot the last but not the least!

The Embassies wen dey house Foreigners?


Close em ALL

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Most of those foreign missions are not even serving the interests of Nigerians. Some of their officials​ will boldly ask you if na dem carry you come the country!

snowland:
Is it G for Goat?

no, it's for groundnut

Biafra Republic is opening her own missions around the world and Nigeria is contemplating closing hers. Rat shit! Lozte!

obowunmi:
they couldn't afford to pay staff anyway
and more importantly,
most of those staff were USELESS.

Would you say this if you had someone working in any of these places?

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

U wan see trouble abi?

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Nigeria is dying gradually before our very eyes. But my hope is that the SUN is Rising



Biafra my dream

And wen will they realized that 5 ministries in naija also need to b scrapped or merged ? [i][/i][color=#990000][/color]

Pavore9:
Most of those foreign missions are not even serving the interests of Nigerians. Some of their officials​ will boldly ask you if na dem carry come the country!

Pavore

FLYFIRE:

Would you say this if you had someone working in any of these places?

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

yes

DjHypno:
I think this is a good decision at this point of time. No unnecessary spending on stuffs that aren't that vital. There's a lot of more ministries that needs to be scrapped. God bless Nigeria.

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.

julioralph:

Pavore

Most of them get bad mouth!