diaspora

2023: LP Inaugurates Diaspora Committee To Raise Funds

September 2, 2022 6:29 am

Ahead of next year’s general elections, the Labour Party on Friday inaugurated an 11-man committee to steer its Diaspora activities and ensure inclusiveness of members of the party outside the country.

Speaking during the inauguration in Abuja, the National Chairman of the Party, Mr. Julius Abure pointed out that the committee was born out of the need to address the desire of Nigerians living abroad to be included in the party’s campaign train.

The committee is also saddled with the responsibility of fund-raising for the party among other things.

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Minister Assures On Diaspora Voting

May 9, 2021 2:22 am

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zubairu Dada, has assured Nigerians abroad that the plans to commence Diaspora voting may become a reality soon.

He said Nigerians abroad are part of the county and as such should be allowed to exercise their franchise.

The minister disclosed that the Independent National Electoral Commission and the National Assembly were currently working to make this materialise.

Dada made this disclosure when he spoke during the Diaspora Quarterly lecture series of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission which was monitored online by our correspondent on Saturday.

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Ebonyi Indigenes In Diaspora Pray For Umahi’s Recovery

July 5, 2020 9:22 am

The Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in Diaspora (AESID) world-wide, on Sunday, prayed for quick recovery of Gov. David Umahi who tested positive for COVID-19.

Its President, Mr. Paschal Oluchukwu, made this prayer in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja.

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Oluchukwu called on Ebonyi people to take the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) warnings and protocols seriously, abide strictly by them and support government’s efforts in the fight against the spread of the pandemic.

Governor Umahi on Saturday announced that he and some of his close aides had …

Nigerian Govt Reveals Plans For Diaspora Voting

December 22, 2019 4:14 am

Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), under the presidency, has said that the commission was seeking an amendment of the Electoral Law to enable more than 20 million Nigerians living abroad to vote in the country’s general election.

She spoke in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday at an event organised by the state government in conjunction with some youth organizations.

Dabiri-Erewa, represented by the Head, Media and Public Relations of the commission, Alhaji Abdur-Rahman Balogun, explained that Nigerians living abroad were contributing enormous resources to national development.

Dabiri-Erewa said it was only normal that they were

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Soludo Tasks Nigerians In Diaspora On Investment

November 7, 2019 7:08 am

A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and member, of the National Economic Advisory Team (NEAT), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has told Nigerians in the Diaspora that it is in their interest to contribute to the prosperity of their country.

He argued that it is wrong to regard investment in the homeland by Nigerians abroad as an act of charity.

In his keynote address yesterday at the second Nigeria Diaspora Investment Summit at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Soludo said racism and xenophobic attacks abroad had made it imperative for Nigerians in the Diaspora to have a prosperous country …

Fulani Dominance: Yoruba elders in diaspora take case to UN

July 21, 2019 2:00 am

Yoruba elders in the Diaspora, under the aegis of the Yoruba Council of Elders in Europe and America, have petitioned the United Nations (UN) against the prevailing security situation in Nigeria, calling on the international body to prevent every attempt to foist Fulani dominance in the country, a situation they say may lead to crisis.

In the letter to the UN Secretary General, Mr. António Guterres by the Coordinating Secretary of the Yoruba Council of Elders, Elder Michael Olawale Shadare, the group alerted the world to the dangerous build-up to a possible genocide, owing to such grim occurrences as mindless …

Biafra: Diaspora supporters solidly behind IPOB leader

June 18, 2019 10:31 am

Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has continued to garner more international support in his foreign tour targeted at restoring the republic of Biafra.

IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, in a statement on Tuesday in Awka, said Biafrans across the west coast of the USA had publicly pledged their moral and material support for Biafra restoration.

He said many more IPOB family members, influential individuals and diaspora organisations were queuing up to host their leader in various cities across the United States.

He revealed that Kanu would visit Chicago to meet Biafrans in …

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Dabiri-Erewa renews call for Diaspora voting

May 5, 2019 6:45 am

Presidential aide Abike Dabiri-Erewa on Sunday told Nigerians in the Diaspora to prevail on the National Assembly to approve voting for Nigerians in the Diaspora.

Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora, made the call at a Diaspora Leadership Conference, organised by the Nigerian Consulate in New York, U.S.

The SSA, whose confirmation as chair of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission is pending in the senate, said that Diaspora voting was one of the things the commission would pursue relentlessly when operational.