Minister of Foreign Affairs, Godfrey Onyeama, says the landlord of the building where the Nigerian embassy in Hungary is located is threatening to evict the embassy.
Onyeama was speaking on Tuesday while defending the ministry’s 2021 budget at the house of representatives in Abuja.
The minister said one of the challenges the ministry is facing is the movement of officers, ambassadors and their families.
He explained that the ministry needs N1.6 billion to move ambassadors and pay officers N3.7 billion, making a total of N5.3 billion for the whole movement.
The minister said there is a need to address the inadequate overhead budgetary provisions to the missions, which is resulting in a lot of debt for electricity and rent.
Onyeama said the federal government is making plans to reduce the number of international organisations Nigeria belongs to because of a scarcity of funds.
In July, Onyeama said the federal government is considering a review of embassy operations across the world.
