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Bad Economy: FG Closes 9 Foreign Missions

Reports say the Federal Government has approved the closure of nine foreign missions and their conversion to non-residency representation or concurrent accreditation. This was what Daily Trust reported on Thursday. The paper said the closure was part of measures to reduce the cost of running Nigeria’s foreign representations in line with the economic situation. According…

A former Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign, Gbenga Ashiru, has died. The late diplomat gave up the ghost in a South African hospital on Saturday. Ashiru, an indigene of Ogun State, was instrumental in the settling of the dispute between Nigeria and South Africa when over 100 Nigerians were deported from the former apartheid country for…