• Hausa Edition
  • Podcast
  • Conferences
  • LeVogue Magazine
  • Business News
  • Print Advert Rates
  • Online Advert Rates
  • Contact Us
Friday, August 29, 2025
Leadership Newspapers
Read in Hausa
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Leadership Newspapers
No Result
View All Result

Nigeria’s Economic Recovery Lies On Patriotism, Diaspora’s Influence – Experts

by Zaka Khaliq
7 months ago
in Business
Nigeria’s Economic Recovery Lies On Patriotism
Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on XTelegram

As Nigeria economic growth slows as a result of fiscal and monetary hiccups, the chief executive officer (CEO), African Heritage Foundation, Tunde Adetunji has said the nation’s economic recovery and emancipation lies on strong patriotism of Nigerians and Nigerians living abroad.

Advertisement

This is even as the director-general, Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), Adewale Smatt Oyerinde, advocated collaboration for entrepreneurs to excel in businesses either in the formal or informal sector of the nation’s economy.

Adetunji, who spoke earlier, while delivering his paper on ‘Brain Drain To Brain Gain: The Role of the Media in Shaping Nigeria’s Narrative,’ at a workshop sponsored by NECA for Business Editors in Ikeja, Lagos, at the weekend, noted that, greed, unpatriotism and corruption were what drove Nigeria into its current economic quagmire.

To get out of the challenge, he charged Nigerians in-country and abroad to be patriotic about their country and always aspire to contribute their respective quotas towards its economic growth and development.

Leaders, he said, must shun greed that breeds corruption in governance, as accountability and transparency are characteristics that made developed countries what they were., urging Nigeria and Nigerians to borrow a leaf from Chinese and Indian models, whose citizens scattered across the world in search of education and skills, are coming back to their respective home country to develop it.

RELATED

Maltina Rolls Out New Pet Bottles, Pledges To Nourish 1m Students

Maltina Rolls Out New Pet Bottles, Pledges To Nourish 1m Students

3 hours ago
currency exchange process

How To Calculate Pips In Forex And Other Important Tips For Traders

4 hours ago
ADVERTISEMENT

“Today, China is the industrial nerve centre of the world, Japan is home of technology and same with Indians. These countries were nothing a century ago but their citizens travelled across the world, acquired the necessary education and skills and returned home to practice what they have acquired. Therefore, Nigerians-in-Diaspora would be critical to the economic prosperity of the country. They need to come home to invest and participate in changing our political and economic landscape, although, government too must be receptive to such an idea for it to work,” he pointed out.

Believing that everybody has passion and that what was missing is the ability to turn such passion into purpose, he added that, “whatever you are, if you cannot contribute to the growth and development of your country, you are a nobody. It is not about acquiring all the certificates of this world, it is about what you create with such certificates, the jobs that you created, the lives that you impacted, and so on.“

He said, the countries that Nigerians aspire to go to or even become their citizens were built by their citizens home and abroad because of patriotism, urging all Nigerians, especially, the youths to also partake in governance to rewrite the country’s future.

ADVERTISEMENT

“Nigerians are everywhere in the world doing great things. It just needs the commitment of the government to woo such people by creating the right operating environment for them to excel when they come here to invest or are ready to partake in the country’s governance,” he said.

Africa, he said, is full of natural resources but lacks the human resources to manage the abundant resources which is leading to brain drain as transparency and accountability are what makes a country better. “African countries can utilise their diasporas to grow their economies, just as Chinese, Japanese and Indians are currently doing. Population is here in Africa but we are not utilising this to our own advantage. This must change going forward,” he said.

On his part, the director general, Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), Adewale Smatt Oyerinde, who is an advocate of collaboration among critical stakeholders in business world, noted that, competition will not take businesses so far, but collaboration is what will define the future of business.

He said, NECA is the voice of business and has been the mouthpiece of employers since 1957, when NECA was created, discussing with the government on behalf of employers, even as it is the secretariat for several associations operating in the private sectors of the nation’s economy.

He charged employers to leverage collaboration for business growth as partnership takes a business to its zenith. Saying that NECA has several international affiliates, he promised that the organisation will continue to oil its relationships with the media often to raise awareness on its activities and ability to make businesses tick through training for employers of labour.

On his part, the president, Association of Business Editors of Nigeria (ABEN), Gabriel Omoh, lauded NECA and African Heritage Foundation for their input in the training, stating that, this will no doubt widen the orison of participants to understand the routine of NECA and how it’s activities impacts the business world as well as how to turn brain drain to brain gain.

He assured NECA of the willingness of his association to work with it in a move to enhance developmental journalism in the country.

 

 


Join Our WhatsApp Channel

Nigerians can now earn US Dollars monthly by acquiring domains cheaply and reselling for profits up to $18,000 (nearly ₦30Million). Beneficiaries include professionals, entrepreneurs, civil servants and more. Click here to start.


Tags: Tunde Adetunji
SendShare10184Tweet6365Share
ADVERTISEMENT
Previous Post

SAHCO Reduces Aircraft Waiting Time, Achieves 37 Minutes Turnaround Time

Next Post

NAICOM, NCAA To Strengthen Insurance Enforcement In Aviation Sector

Zaka Khaliq

Zaka Khaliq

You May Like

Maltina Rolls Out New Pet Bottles, Pledges To Nourish 1m Students
Business

Maltina Rolls Out New Pet Bottles, Pledges To Nourish 1m Students

2025/08/29
currency exchange process
Business

How To Calculate Pips In Forex And Other Important Tips For Traders

2025/08/29
Fitch Upgrades Afreximbank To ‘BBB’
Business

Japan Agency Rating Reinforces Afreximbank’s Credibility, Says Denya

2025/08/29
BREAKING: Emirates Airlines Resumes Flights To Nigeria October 1
Business

Emirates Airline To Participate In Africa Tourism, Creative Economy Expo

2025/08/29
Tinubu Names Abubakar Dantosho MD Of NPA
Business

NSC Boss Lauds Dantsoho On Election As IAPH Vice President

2025/08/29
tinubu
Business

Capital Market Stakeholders Back Tinubu’s Reforms, Urge Companies To List On NGX

2025/08/29
Leadership Conference advertisement

LATEST

Maltina Rolls Out New Pet Bottles, Pledges To Nourish 1m Students

PICTORIAL: VP Shettima Represents Tinubu At Ex-VP Sambo Son’s Wedding In Kano

Tinubu Excited As Nigerian Babalola Emerges As Rotary International President

How To Calculate Pips In Forex And Other Important Tips For Traders

Tottenham Sign Simons From RB Leipzig For £52m

JUST-IN: Many Feared Dead As Sokoto Records Another Boat Tragedy

Jonathan Hasn’t Ruled Himself Out Of 2027 Presidential Contest, Says Ex-President’s Cousin

Court Jails Businessman 6 Months For Cocaine Trafficking

Lagos Records 8,692 Domestic, Sexual Violence Cases In 1 Year

PICTORIAL: Obasanjo Visits Alaafin Amid Row With Ooni

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.