Stakeholders Target 17m Citizens Abroad For Rebranding Nigeria Project

The Unveiling and Rebranding Nigeria Initiative (URNI) has partnered with the Nigerians successful Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) to mobilise an estimated 17 cardinal of the country’s citizens overseas to task her affirmative representation and thrust nationalist development.

The collaboration was cemented during a sojourn by URNI’s delegation, led by its chairman, Board of Trustees, Brigadier General Buba Shajiaba (rtd) to NIDCOM office successful Abuja.

At the bosom of the inaugural is simply a committedness to reshape planetary narratives astir Nigeria done taste diplomacy, younker engagement and targeted diaspora mobilisation.

Shajiaba said, “Our halfway ngo is to animate heavy patriotism and unity, portion strategically projecting Nigeria’s immense strengths and achievements to a planetary audience. We are moving beyond speech to actionable partnerships.”

He highlighted URNI’s planetary outreach, peculiarly its concern with the France-based Friends of Nigeria successful Europe (FON), co-chaired by John Okoro.

“These collaborations are not simply symbolic; they are already strengthening taste speech and mobilising captious diaspora resources for developmental causes backmost location successful Nigeria,” Shajiaba added.

The delegation presented NIDCOM with its maiden “Faces of Patriotism” book, a work celebrating exemplary Nigerians and a roadmap for nationalist rebranding.

Receiving the items connected behalf of NIDCOM’s chairman, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the commission’s secretary, Dr Sule Yakubu Bassi, commended URNI’s efforts and emphasised the captious relation of the diaspora.

“The Nigerian diaspora assemblage represents a immense reservoir of potential. Their contributions successful investment, innovation and diplomacy are progressively captious to elevating our nation’s planetary standing.

“We promote URNI to align its programmes with NIDCOM’s flagship initiatives. This concern is simply a transformative measurement successful gathering planetary assurance successful Nigeria, portion reinforcing unity and patriotism astatine home,” Bassi said.

The URNI delegation praised Dabiri-Erewa for her “visionary enactment successful championing the welfare, extortion and empowerment of Nigerians abroad,” noting that the commission’s enactment successful diaspora concern and argumentation improvement resonates profoundly with their goals.

Since its constitution successful 2007, URNI has positioned itself arsenic a grassroots operator of nationalist pride. Both organisations reaffirmed their committedness to this cause, believing this latest collaboration volition beryllium a almighty catalyst to unite Nigerians everyplace successful the shared ngo of nationalist rebranding.