Business Nigerians abroad,biggest investors in Nigeria-Dabiri

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The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa disclosed during the Nigerian Diaspora Direct Investment Summit in London, that Nigerians living abroad have been identified as the biggest investors into the country’s economy.

According to the lawmaker, “Nigerians living abroad may have turned out to be the biggest investors in the country, and I urged the government to provide them with the enabling premise, through engaging and embracing them for a better Nigeria economy.”

She further said that before the end of 2012, the Federal Government would established a Diaspora Commission that would ensure the compilation of a database of Nigerians abroad for appropriate Diaspora vote in the year 2015.

In a similar development, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has commended the contributions of Nigerians abroad to national development, He said, “Remittances of over $21 billion in the last one year, appears the highest so far in Africa. Nigerians in Diaspora are excelling in their various fields of human endeavours abroad and have continued to enormously contribute to national development, particularly in the educational and health sectors.”

Adding that, “Nigerians abroad have donated educational materials such as books and computers; medical equipment and drugs, in addition to funding many free medical missions to many communities in Nigeria. These they do, through groups such as ‘Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas’ Anambra State Association (ASA); Women and Calvary Torch International, etc.”
 
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