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Nigeria Recalls Its Ambassadors

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has ordered the recall of all the country's ambassadors from around the world with the exception of permanent representatives to the UN in Geneva and New York, in a massive overhaul of Abuja’s diplomatic missions.


“Nearly all of Nigeria’s ambassadors are heading home in an overhaul of Abuja’s diplomatic missions, President Bola Tinubu’s office has announced. The two representatives at the UN will be spared for now, they added.


A press release published by Presidential Adviser Ajuri Ngelale on Saturday said that ‘President Bola Tinubu has directed the recall of all career and non-career ambassadors from their duty posts worldwide’ with immediate effect.


Nigerian President Bola Tinubu

According to the document, the decision was made as a result of a ‘careful study of the present state of affairs at Nigerian Consulate Offices and Embassies worldwide’.


The stated aim of the measure is to ensure that Abuja’s diplomatic missions deliver ‘world-class efficiency and quality’. 


Given the upcoming UN General Assembly, Nigeria’s permanent representatives at the international body based in New York and Geneva are exempted from the recall, Ngelale said.


According to Reuters, the African nation has 109 diplomatic missions worldwide.

Tinubu, who assumed office in late May this year, has since replaced Nigeria’s defense chief, along with the heads of the army, navy, and air force. 


In June, the president also dissolved the boards of federal government institutions, agencies, and state-owned enterprises.


Among the reforms the president has carried out so far is the removal of fuel subsidies, with the aim of redirecting the funds toward the agricultural sector”. -RT


Nigeria provides for a large part of the ECOWAS troops that are supposedly going to stage an intervention in Niger unless the anti-Western military junta cedes power and reinstates ousted leader Mohamed Bazoum.


Unlike the recent spate of coups and coup attempts in Africa, if an attempted military coup were in the offing for Nigeria, it could spell the beginning of the expulsion of Western influence from the entire continent.