Federal Government on Tuesday, 24 April announced new heads for some of the country’s embassies abroad. The list includes 12 consuls-general and five charge de affairs. They are to resume immediately, according to a statement by Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar.
The names of the consuls-general and their countries of posting are: Ambassador Auwalu Jega Namadina – Atlanta, U.S.A.; Ambassador Nnamdi Okechukwu Nze – Bata, Equatorial Guinea; Ambassador Francis Ntui Enya – Douala, Cameroon; Ambassador Gbadebo Afolabi – Shanghai, China; Ambassador Oludare Ezekiel Folowosele – Hong Kong, China; Ambassador Abubakar Jidda – New York, U.S.A; Ambassador Yakubu Audu Dadu -Frankfurt, Germany; Ambassador Taofik Obasanjo Coker – Buea, Cameroon; Ambassador George Collins Onwuekwe – Guangzhou, China; Ambassador Umar Ibrahim Bashir – Johannesburg, South Africa; Ambassador Zayyan Ibrahim – Dubai, UAE; and Ambassador Muazam Ibrahim Jibrin Nayaya – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The Heads of Mission are Ambassador Saidu Mohammed Dodo – Damascus, Syria; Ambassador Patrick Imoudu Imologhome – Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; Ambassador Francisca Kemi Omayuli – Singapore, Singapore; Ambassador Babagana Ahmadu – Bangui, Central African Republic; and Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed – Tripoli, Libya.
Tuggar reminded the envoys that their appointments were pivotal to the country’s economic growth. The minister, according to a statement yesterday in Abuja by his media aide, Alkasim Abdulkadir, urged them to be good ambassadors of Nigeria.
