I like Nigerian jollof rice, says outgoing France ambassador

I like Nigerian jollof rice, says outgoing France ambassador

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The outgoing France Ambassador to Nigeria, Emmanuelle Blatmann, on Thursday, said she will miss so many things about Nigeria but not the country’s pepper soup.

Blatmann has been France’s Ambassador to Nigeria since October 2021.

She, however, would be taking up a new role as the Director for Africa in Paris.

Blatmann, in an interview in Abuja ahead of her departure from Nigeria, said, “I will be very honest with you and blunt, I will not miss the pepper soup because it’s too peppery. You people tried to kill me several times.

“I will be eating all sorts of things with my eyes red and crying, I have smoke coming out of my ears. I am exaggerating but honestly, why do you put so much pepper? In the North, it’s better but in the South-West, my God!

“But I like the jollof rice, I like the moimoi and the puff-puff.”

Blatmann however said she would miss the country’s weather and food generally.

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