Tinubu To Diaspora Nigerians: Bring Your Resources To Nigeria For Business Investment

He said he crossed many hurdles before winning the presidential poll.
Owolewa, who represents Washington DC, said they have been supporting people to take advantage of such opportunities for their economic empowerment.

“Those are the opportunities to make investors biggest in New York. In my office, we do not just talk, we teach our people how to get contracts, we teach our people how to get grants,” he said.

Also speaking, a Nigerian-American, Olufunmilola Obe, an Inspector working in the New York Police Department (NYPD), briefed the president on her efforts to make Africa, especially Nigeria proud in her office.

Obe was the coordinator of an African Law Enforcement Organisation, an association within the NYPD, as Vice President and the first African ever to be promoted to the rank of an Inspector in the history of NYPD.

On her part, Zuriel Oduwole, an American education advocate and film maker best known for her works on the advocacy for the education of girls in Africa, said notwithstanding her work, which also includes her involvement in peace mediation, including that of 2015, peace mediation between Guyana, Venezuela, and 2018, invited by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi of Egypt to help get peace there as well, she remains proudly Nigerian.

By lucky kenedy ose Abuja