See awful things Nigerian embassy has done on Buhari's visit to US

Buhari with Obama in Washington 

If there is an institution in the United States where individuals expect to find relics of President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent visit to the country, it is the Embassy of Nigeria in Washington DC.

Unfortunately, there is no much information on its website – its virtual office as it were – to showcase the much-publicised visit.

Day after the President has returned, its photo gallery, a section visitors would expect to view photographs of Buhari’s official engagement in the US, was black.

There were also no traces of the speeches of the President. Remarks by host President Barack Obama and other dignitaries at different meeting organised for the visiting Nigerian team were also missing on the site.

But for two posts titled, ‘Buhari has integrity, clear agenda – Obama’ and ‘Nigeria committed to good governance, fighting corruption,’ there was nothing on the site to tell visitors that the President was in the country last week.

The embassy culled the stories from Nigerian newspapers. One of the reports, which where placed under its announcement heading, was illustrated by a passport-size photograph of the President while the second was accompanied by a picture he took with Obama.

In this age of instant documentation, there was no video recording on a website hosted by Nigeria’s ‘home’ in the US, an opposite of the noise around the visit. On the video gallery of the embassy’s site were two video clips – one of them is a narrative of major socio-economic milestones of the country while the second was a 2009 fashion week.

Visitors are introduced to the digital office of the embassy by photographs depicting the country’s diverse cultures and tourist sites, such as the Zuma Rock in the Federal Capital Territory.