There was a time when the Nigerian embassy told the Russian law enforcement authority that it did not desire to be informed about any Nigerian arrested for drug trafficking or any other crime, and that the Russian authority was free to take any action it thought fit against Nigerians to teach them some lessons

No one who had keenly followed reports and analyses of developments
on Nigeria’s political terrain in the past couple of weeks would be
surprised at the emergence of the Katsina State Governor, Umar Musa
Yar’Adua, as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party…