The Chairman, of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Honourable Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has described the planned Global Summit for African Diaspora as a means to foster the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of Africans in the Diaspora.

Speaking at the Joint Press conference held in Abuja Wednesday, Dabiri-Erewa stated that the two-day event will test a platform to engage with leaders and organizations facilitating successful African investments and shift venture capital portfolios towards high-growth Africa -focused companies.

She said it will also afford stakeholders to interface with entrepreneurs working on impactful innovations that are transforming their regions, Africa and the world.

She said: “We are trying to get Africans in the diaspora together for a two-day program with the theme, “Building a stronger connection between Africans in the global diaspora.”

According to her, the symposium is designed to address the profile workable solutions to Africa’s most pressing issues and offer concrete strategies as well as provide necessary partnerships with key diaspora leaders in business and professions with leaders in the African continent to achieve successful results.

“We want to create an interface for networking amongst Africans and other diaspora all over the world, as networking in this age and time is very important so as to build bridges between Africans and the diasporas by forging relations between the AU, OACPS and the SPF amongst others in realizing the diaspora – the sixth region of the African Union.”

She added that exploring and engaging the contributions of the Diaspora, particularly in scientific knowledge and innovations will help mobilize diaspora savings and diaspora philanthropical contributions.

She noted that it will help to harness migration for sustainable development in Africa. “We do hope that moving on the Pan-African spirit would be felt amongst all of us as Africans”, she said.

The two-day event which takes place on the April 27 and 28 in Abuja, Nigeria, will hopefully attract thousands of individuals of African descent to have constructive dialogue for social economic policies by key actors in the diaspora, government agencies, and international bodies.

“The symposium would focus on key areas like science and technology, agriculture, infrastructure development, tourism and culture, health, information, education and economic development as all are encouraged to take part.