Abuja, August 28, 2024.
Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, (NiDCOM), says partnership between Africans, home and in the Diaspora is a key pathway to the development and advancement of the Continent.
Dabiri-Erewa stated this while receiving a delegation from the US-Africa Chamber of Commerce in her Office in Abuja. Dabiri-Erewa believes that Africa can be better through intentional investments by Africans in the Diaspora.
She cited the Asian example, that Africa is rich in both human and natural resources that will push the continent to greater heights.
The NiDCOM Boss told the delegation that the Commission is ready to render its support and create the needed ecosystem for exponential investment in their motherland.
She seized the opportunity, to call on other Africans in the Diaspora to identify with and invest in the continent.
Leader of the delegation, Sir Sam Joe Madu, Gatekeeper of the US-Africa Chamber of Commerce, informed that the group is willing to collaborate with the Commission moving 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 Founder, Global United Voice for Empowerment assured of providing scholarships to youths and interested persons in ICT and Cybersecurity, as well as brain power utilization to bring value to the table with collateral benefits.
In addition, he said the group plans to create local call centres, backed with alternative power supply, to get real-time assistance, across Africa.
Mr. Madu appreciated the Chairman for all her efforts in Diaspora engagement for Africa and Nigeria.
Also, Mr. Everard Davis, an American entrepreneur expressed his excitement at coming to Nigeria, the motherland, with a reconnection spirit, adding that, mining and agric-business for Africa has a lot of potentials to reach the level of its counterparts in Asia, Europe and Northern America, through strategic partnerships among Africans and Nigeria in particular.
Prof. Jerushia McDonald-Hylton, a media practitioner and women advocate in the US, commended Hon. Dabiri-Erewa for being an influential woman for 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.
