Perspective

The culture of miscommunication and mistrust continues between Nigerian foreign missions and citizens in the diaspora. A good number of us who reserved precious time committed huge amounts of money and took enormous risk on the road to honour appointments at the Nigerian Consulate in Atlanta Georgia were greatly disappointed recently. I had gone to Nigerian mission in Atlanta, Georgia, United States to see the improvements that were being touted in the relational engagements and encounters with our “diplomats”, the choice to put the word diplomats in inverted comas is completely deliberate. From the interactions I had with some of them, I cannot honestly vouch now or go on oath that these are trained and experienced technocrats. In spite of the best efforts of the Nigerian Dia...