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It’s unfortunate that the Media or the reporter failed to observe the journalistic ethics of balancing the report. Even the usual pretence of making efforts to get a response from the Embassy was “unsuccessful” was not contemplated.
The reporter should have contacted the consular department in Foreign Affairs Abuja to ascertain the correctness of the situation or if in America, they should have made efforts to know certain standard consular procedures from any of the Nigerian diplomatic posts before going to the press.
Making haste to discredit a Government or government agencies without proper verification of facts are counter productive, and sometimes demoralises genuine and patriotic hardworking public servants.