{"id":2346,"date":"2024-08-29T12:53:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T12:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2024-08-31T20:00:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T20:00:54","slug":"nigeria-passport-are-treated-with-disdain-in-foreign-countries-fg-laments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/08\/29\/nigeria-passport-are-treated-with-disdain-in-foreign-countries-fg-laments\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Passport Are Treated With Disdain In Foreign Countries \u2013 FG Laments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Federal Government has decried the disdainful treatment given to Nigeria\u2019s Passport in foreign countries across the world.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON),\u00a0Jibrin Baba Ndace\u00a0 said though Nigeria is not a perfect country and has its challenges the treatment given to Nigerians with Nigerian passports is unacceptable<\/p>\n

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Baba Ndace partly blamed the poor treatment of Nigerians in foreign countries on negative narratives that have flooded the internet and media space concerning the country.<\/p>\n

The VON DG stated this during a visit to the Deputy Governor of Cross River State,\u00a0\u00a0Peter odey in his office in Calabar, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a person, when you travel out with a Nigerian passport, you are treated with disdain, unbefitting of your status. This unacceptable treatment is traceable to negative stories people have peddled about Nigeria.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe may not be perfect, but we are not what is being portrayed. Let us partner to tell Nigeria\u2019s story, especially in this era of social media distortions, outright lies, misinformation and disinformation.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOur country is not all about negative news, we have great things happening here too. We should all join hands to tell the positives that we are known for,<\/em>\u201d Ndace said.<\/p>\n

He added that von \u00a0<\/a>has a unique role in telling Nigeria\u2019s story and Africa\u2019s story intentionally and deliberately. He explained that the time had come for the country to tell its story.<\/p>\n

\u201cVON has a unique role with a mandate to tell not only the story of Nigeria but the story of Africa as a whole, and we do this in four Nigerian languages: Hausa, Yoruba, Igbos and Fulfulde. For the international languages, we broadcast in English, French, Arabic and Swahili.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTelling Nigeria\u2019s story is something that all of us should be intentional about. This is not a time for us to do good and be quiet. We must be unapologetic in telling Nigeria\u2019s story confidently<\/em>\u201c, Ndace stated.<\/p>\n

On his part, Odey promised collaboration of the state government in ensuring\u00a0 VON achieves its mandate.<\/p>\n

Odey said through the \u201coffice of the Commissioner for Information, the Cross River State Government will partner with Voice of Nigeria. We need VON to publicise all our activities, and showcase Cross River State to the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHenceforth, we need the active participation of VON in the coverage of our flagship tourism festival, Carnival Calabar and other lofty programmes and projects of the Prince Otu-led administration because we are investing in infrastructural development<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Federal Government has decried the disdainful treatment given to Nigeria\u2019s Passport in foreign countries across the world. The Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON),\u00a0Jibrin Baba Ndace\u00a0 said though Nigeria is not a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}