Nigeria Needs To Check The Barber and the Razor As Seychelles Joins The Big BANS

Yes, now Seychelles has included us in the unfortunate list: “Seychelles’ decision to close its ports of entry to Nigerian passport holders has stirred criticism, prompting the country’s Vice President Ahmed Afif to offer an explanation on why the tourist island made the decision.”

The East African country announced it is tightening immigration policies for Nigerians, citing drug trafficking and cyberfraud as reasons.

Afif told reporters on Thursday that the travel restriction does not include Nigerians with diplomatic passports and active work or residency licenses issued by the island nation, according to NAN.

“For the others, the government will keep its eyes open and SEBS (Seychelles Electronic Border System) will analyze much more to find out what reasons they are coming, for example someone who is coming for a holiday for only one day. We have to ask questions because it is strange and we have seen that happening,” Afif said.

Good People, Nigeria needs a major reset, and we cannot blame these countries, from UAE (Dubai) to South Africa, and now Seychelles. The National Orientation Agency (NOA), if it is still operating in action, not just in name, has a huge assignment to execute in the nation.

In the Igbo Nation, there is a proverb which says that when the barber keeps messing up a haircut, you need to check if the problem is from the barber or that the razor is not sharp. Nigeria needs to check what the root cause is right now! And that has to be done urgently as the reputation of the nation continues to fade.

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Comment 1: We know the Nigerian tribes mostly involved in illegal drugs overseas, be it in Malaysia, South Africa, Ghana, Thailand etc.

My Response: “We know the Nigerian tribes mostly involved in illegal drugs overseas” I was not expecting you to go that level. Honestly, that is not typical of you. Hope they did not hack your LinkedIn.

But if you use real data, illegality and drugs are well distributed across Nigeria, and every tribe has a specialty. All are good on drugs, others are superb on stealing government money, some are good on embezzling and raking companies. So, you may be surprised that everyone is guilty. This is not a tribal issue my brother: this is a national problem.

And the big one, Dubai does not know us by tribe since everyone goes with the same passport!

Comment 1R: All tribes are included in these. We are all Nigerians irrespective of our tribes. The big question is since the day we have been playing the tribal and ethnic card, where has it led us to? The problem of Nigeria is not a tribal problem but a family problem. We all represent a family and charity begins at home! Hence, morals should be taught at home rather than blackmailing tribes.

All said, Nigeria will be great again!

Comment 1A: Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe; I wish you read my comment again, I did not mention any of the tribes, we have over 250 tribes in Nigeria.

I just threw a fishing hook to the river, I don’t know the fish that will be caught.

My comment is to arouse each tribe to rise up and assess themselves.

With what I wrote, people will start re-assessing the extent of their community involvement and making correction at the starting point ie family.

Moving on>>>>>

My Response: No issues. You wrote “tribes” which is fair enough. My point is that outside Nigeria, we’re all Nigerians. We have to deal with this from the Nigerian angle. In the EFCC file, every tribe is represented. In the prison, every tribe is represented. This issue is really specialty but we’re united by one thing: degradation of the Nigerian reputation.

Comment 2: Sad, but we have to tell ourselves some home truths. When our people are leaving the country in droves (aka Japa) it doesn’t send a good signal to foreign countries. Secondly, following the mess caused by non availability of passport booklets, there is significant increase in Nigerians in diaspora ditching their Nigerian passports. They no longer see any benefit of dual nationality. They rather apply for a visa. The hassle to apply/renew a Nigerian passport, joined with this created reputation has changed peoples allegiance. How do we reverse this trend, our politicians have brought upon the country and its people is no longer a million dollar question. It’s more like a trillion dollar question now.

Comment 3: Countries, both big and small have seen Nigeria finish! Seychelles is a small nation, and they cannot allow you people to overwhelm them with bad behaviours. We don’t have great reputation when it comes to excellent conduct. So if we believe that we are being treated less than we deserve, we will have to prove it.

It is not enough to demand tier 1 treatments from others, you have to show your leadership credentials too, and we haven’t been showing that. You all will be alright.

If you use real data, illegality and drugs are well distributed across Nigeria, and every tribe has a specialty. All are good on drugs, others are superb on stealing government money, some are good on embezzling and raking companies. So, you may be surprised that everyone is…

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