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As Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I will work hand in hand with the pro-people’s President to make NIDCOM a Diaspora Parliament with NIDO at the center to galvanize over 20 million Nigerians’ human and financial resources in Diaspora. It’s only common sense that a constituency that technically oversubscribed $300 Million Nigeria’s Diaspora Bond by 130%, remitted over $65.34 billion in just three years [2018-2020]; $24.31bn in 2018, $23.81bn in 2019, and $17.21bn in 2020, an average of four percent [4%] of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to boost economic activities in the country certainly deserves the right…

The following account took place on my flight from Abuja to Rome via Frankfurt on the 5th of November 2022 to attend the Annual General Meeting [AGM] of Nigerians in Diaspora Organization billed to take place in Rome on the 12th of November 2022. With jet lag in the offing, and despite my hectic campaign schedule, I wouldn’t miss out on the NIDOE AGM, an organization that retains a special place in my heart, having served selflessly from 2013 – 2020 first as President at the National level [Germany] and subsequently as Continental Chairman Board of Trustees at European level. …

DBS TV Morning Ride Anchor persons asked for my reactions to the above statement. My answer was simple and swift! Appointment of “Diaspora Shadow Ministers” unconstitutional – NiDCOM; warns against move: A statement by Engr Dr. Sule Yakubu Bassi, Secretary of the Commission, on behalf of the Chairman/CEO, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said that the attention of the Management of NiDCOM has been “drawn to the so-called appointment of “Diaspora Shadow Ministers” by a certain Mr. Kenneth Gbandi, former Chairman, NIDO Europe.” “A constituency that remitted over $65.34 billion in just three years [2018-2020] averaging 4% of Nigeria GDP, which helped save Nigeria from bankruptcy, deserves the…

It is time to restore the lost glory of the Anioma Nation and Our future is now !

🛣️🎙️📣🏅🇳🇬🧠 The vision to transform Delta North into the Agricultural Netherlands of Africa will offer food security, provide manifold income streams for our underpaid farmers & directly inject 120,000 jobs into the Anioma ecosystem. To get this vision running, we need the energy of young, first level staff – 3000 small holder farmers, academic interns, local produce entrepreneurs, supply chain distributors, farm support staff, farm technicians & managers, drone powered security personnel and agro enthusiasts in general. These 9 massive self sustaining agro settlements (one in every local government within Delta North) will run exclusively on renewable solar energy. 3000…

Gbandi unveils 5 point Agenda for Delta North at the Official Campaign Flag Off in Asaba 120,000 jobs in 4 years _Green4Life Agro Initiative in 9 LGAs of Delta North in partnership with Green Leben Germany & Portugal: 550 Diaspora House Village (DVD); Youth Capacity Building and Business Development (YCBBD) and Skills and Vocational Training & Re-Training  Initiative (SVTTI) for over 65% out of job youths in Delta North._ 2. Monthly Unemployment Benefits _Social Welfare Package (SWP) for all Graduates/ Skilled and Vocational graduates in Delta North enlisted in the YCBBD Database. Disbursement of this social welfare scheme, financed from…

By Femi Odere For a developing (some would argue that she’s still underdeveloped) nation like Nigeria, it’s befuddling, to say the least, that the country’s Diaspora population, which has been documented to have the highest percentage in higher education among global Diaspora population are not given any place in the country’s foreign policy formulation, not to talk of being factored into her sustainable economic development paradigm. Although this piece is an attempt to make a case for the inclusion of Nigerians in Diaspora, based on hard facts and incontrovertible evidence, into the country’s foreign policy and sustainable economic development agenda,…

Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD (Odogwu of Ibusa Clan, Institute of African StudiesUniversity of Nigeria, Nsukka). E-mail: nwaezeigwe.genocideafrica@gmail.com A popular anecdote states that a divorced woman will always remember three things about her ex-husband. The first, all the good things she did for her ex-husband. The second, all the bad things the ex-husband did to her. And the third, the evil she would do to her ex-husband if the opportunity arises. This is position between the British realm placed on the stead of an ex-husband and some scholars and politicians of African descent acting on the stead of a divorced wife…

Every vote you put in that ballot, every thumbprint you inscribe on that vote tablet, is a down payment made, a seed sown, and a validation of the moral, leadership & ideological construct of the candidate you have in(vested) your seed (vote) in. In farming-harvest words… Just the way you cannot plant agbado and reap cassava, you cannot plant ineptitude and reap excellence. You cannot vote a tyrant and expect equity & fairness. You cannot empower a looter & demand accountability. When you put that seed (vote) in the ballot, you set in motion a sequence of events that are…

“Together with his colleague at the Global Nigerian Diaspora Network, they lobbied various stakeholders, including INEC, National Assembly members and pushed for Diaspora and Electronic Voting, eventually, Diaspora Voting was expunged from the bill and only the electronic voting as we have it today passed” Party sentiments asides, ANIOMA have a golden opportunity to mobilize en massé an overwhelming support for one of their own, who has maintained a commitment to the collective prosperity of the ANIOMA domain both at home and in the Diaspora. Let’s fly G B A N D I for Senate and here are just few…