The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) is set to centralise intellectualising the idea of the diasporic community as an instrument of (Nigerian) foreign policy. Come January 7th, 2025, it is holding a virtual seminar on “Educational Attainment and Professional Success Among Nigerian Immigrants to the United States”.
The event which has been scheduled for midday on that date has Dr. Stephen Akintayo as the Guest Lecturer. There is no introduction of the Guest Lecturer but it might be no more than the well known investment coach with some roots in the university business.
Also unclear is whether other countries where the diasporic community is also substantial as in the UK, Canada, France and certainly China have either been treated already or are in the offing.
Husbanding the diasporic community has been an age-old agendum in NIIA’s checklist of works. Prof Joy Ogwu wrote on it in the now defunct NIIA Journal decades ago under Prof Akinyemi.
Hon Abike-Dabiri-Erewa, Head of Nigeria’s diasporic bureacracy
Nigeria has a bureaucracy for managing the diasporic community. There is no doubt about that. What is in doubt is the amount of intellectual reflections that goes into specific dimensions of that in comparison with countries with the best records in deploying the diasporic community to effect although Intervention is not sure which country will win the excellence award in this regard as things are today.
NIIA’s link for the event is:
