{"id":10833,"date":"2022-12-05T06:09:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10833"},"modified":"2022-12-05T06:09:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:09:04","slug":"oacps-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10833","title":{"rendered":"OACPS Summit: NIDCOM Nominated Diaspora Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Nigeria, through the <a href=\"https:\/\/nidcom.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nigerians in Diaspora Commission<\/a> (NIDCOM), has been nominated to Co-chair the 10th <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Organisation_of_African,_Caribbean_and_Pacific_States\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States<\/a>, (OACPS) as &#8220;Diaspora Champion&#8221;, the first ever Diaspora summit to be organised by the OACPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In an official communication<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>to Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman\/CEO, the organisation , based in Brussels, which had paid an official visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/nidcom.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NIDCOM<\/a> in Abuja early this year along with Nigeria\u2019s Ambassador to Brussels, Amb Obinna Onowu,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>also said it is nominating <a href=\"https:\/\/nidcom.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NIDCOM<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Organisation_of_African,_Caribbean_and_Pacific_States\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OACPS<\/a>&#8216; &#8220;Champion&#8221; for Diaspora for its pioneering efforts in Diaspora engagement in the continent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a statement by Gabriel Odu of the Media, Public Relations and Protocols Unit, <a href=\"https:\/\/nidcom.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NIDCOM<\/a>,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the statement added that Te&#8217;te Anto&#8217;nio, Minister of External Relations, Republic of Angola, will open the Summit while Heads of States of government of the Caribbean and the Pacific from over 70 countries will thereafter make a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>declaration on their commitments to their diaspora the world over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Organisation_of_African,_Caribbean_and_Pacific_States\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States<\/a>, (OACPS) is scheduled to hold in Luanda, the Angolan capital from 6th to 10th December, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Summit will among other issues focus on General Context of Diaspora, Policies and Strategies of Engagement drawing from the Caribbean, Pacific and African Experiences, Success Stories and Diaspora Centre of Excellence in Nigeria, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Organisation_of_African,_Caribbean_and_Pacific_States\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OACPS<\/a> will be Co-haired by<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Dr Abike Dabiri-Erewa and Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, Secretary General while the Heads of State of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Organisation_of_African,_Caribbean_and_Pacific_States\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OACPS<\/a> will make a statement on engaging its diaspora on the 7th and 8th<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>December, 2022, rounding up on the inaugural conference on<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>December 10, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria, through the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), has been nominated to Co-chair the 10th Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, (OACPS) as &#8220;Diaspora Champion&#8221;, the first ever Diaspora summit to be organised by the OACPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6007,6006,6005],"class_list":["post-10833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-abike-dabiri","tag-nidcom","tag-oacps-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10835,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions\/10835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}