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- Diaspora Nigerians remitted home about $20b last year, the Federal Government said yesterday.
- Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said the government will tap into the experience the Nigerians abroad to deepen the economy.
- Those in the Diaspora will however wait for some time before they can start voting in elections.
- Osinbajo, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari, spoke at the 2015 Diaspora Day held at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
- He said: “Besides, the financial remittances from Nigerians abroad have well reached an estimate of over $20 billion in 2014.“With the potential of such huge populations abroad and attendant financial muscle, no government can actually totally ignore such persons.”
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