Abuja, Aug. 28, 2024 – Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman/CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), says partnership between Africans at home and in the Diaspora is key to formidable continental development and advancement.
Dabiri-Erewa said this while receiving a delegation from US-Africa Chamber of Commerce in her office in Abuja.
Dabiri-Erewa said Africa could be a better place through intentional investments by Africans in the Diaspora.
She cited the Asian example where human and natural resources pushed the continent to greater heights.
The NiDCOM boss told the delegation that the Commission was ready to render its support and create the needed ecosystem for exponential investments in their motherland.
She seized the opportunity to call on other Africans in the Diaspora to identify and invest in the continent.
The Leader of the Delegation, Sir Sam Joe Madu, the Gatekeeper of the US-Africa Chamber of Commerce, said the group was willing to collaborate with the Commission moving the continent from transactional economy to real time investment in sectors such as agriculture, ethical mining, refinery, and infrastructure through linkages between local construction companies and vetted US Companies.
Madu, who is also the Founder of Global United Voice for Empowerment, said that providing scholarships to youths and interested persons in ICT and cybersecurity as well as brain power utilisation could bring value to the table with collateral benefits.
He said the group planned to create local call centres backed with alternative power supply to get real-time assistance across Africa.
Madu thanked NiDCOM Chairman for all her efforts in Diaspora engagement for Africa and Nigeria.
Everard Davis, an American entrepreneur expressed his excitement coming to Nigeria, motherland with a reconnection spirit, adding that mining and agric-business for Africa had the potential to reach the level of her counterparts in Asia, Europe and Northern America through strategic partnership among Africans and Nigeria in particular.
Prof. Jerushia McDonald-Hylton, a media practitioner and women advocate in the US, commended Dabiri-Erewa for being an influential woman in Diaspora engagement.
McDonald-Hylton extended a hand of collaboration to the NiDCOM boss on a project geared to spotlight excelling African women in the Diaspora. (GBN)
