Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, (NiDCOM) Dr. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has emphasised that strong partnerships between Africans at home and in the Diaspora are crucial for continental development.
According to a statement signed by Gabriel Odu of media, public relations and protocols unit of NIDCOM, Dabiri-Erewa, while receiving a delegation from US-Africa Chamber of Commerce in her Office in Abuja highlighted the potential for growth through targeted investments by the Diaspora, drawing parallels with Asia’s success. She assured the delegation of the Commission’s commitment to fostering an environment conducive to significant investments in Africa.
The chairman 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 and invest in the continent.
Leader of the delegation, Sir Sam Joe Madu, Gatekeeper of the US-Africa Chamber of Commerce said 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 stated that providing scholarships to youths and interested persons in ICT and Cybersecurity, as well as brain power utilization will 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 even as he appreciated the NIDCOM boss for all her efforts in Diaspora engagement for Africa and Nigeria.
Also, Mr. Everard Davis, an American entrepreneur expressed his excitement coming to Nigeria, motherland with a reconnection spirit, adding that mining and agric-business for Africa has a lot of potential to reach the level of its 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 Hon. Abike 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.