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The Federal Government has approved the closure of five foreign missions and embassies, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama said.<\/p>\n

Onyeama told newsmen in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The minister, who did not mention the embassies or missions, said the process for closure was underway and was also subject to the approval of the president.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he sees that, he may or may not want to close some, so we have not yet reached the stage of closing some,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The minister also reiterated that the closing missions abroad were \u201cextremely expensive\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe expense, costs of closing embassies is so high and prohibitive but in the long run it will more economical.\u201d<\/p>\n

The minister, on April 10, said the closure of Nigerian missions abroad is inevitable.<\/p>\n

He admitted that it is ex\u00adpensive to close a country\u2019s embassy but added that in the long run the policy will be beneficial to Nigerians.<\/p>

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Onyeama stressed that the reduction of Nigeria\u2019s foreign missions remains on the agenda of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.<\/p>\n

Buhari had said at the inception of his administration that the Federal Government will reduce the number of missions to save cost.<\/p>\n

Nigeria currently has 119 foreign missions.<\/p>\n

Onyeama said: \u201cThe government is following up on that and we have sort of pre\u00adpared the roadmap; we have started the implementation of that and made also recom\u00admendations in that context.<\/p>\n

\u201cParadoxically, closing missions is extremely expensive. At first sight, it seems ob\u00advious that you close it you are saving cost but you will actually find that the cost of closing is almost prohibitive.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in the long run it will be cheaper, but in the imme\u00addiate and short term it is ex\u00adpensive but we have started the process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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