President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Abike Dabiri-Erewa as the chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM).
Buhari, in a letter to the Senate, requested confirmation to enable her serve a second term as NIDCOM boss.
In 2015, Mrs Dabiri-Erewa, 60, was appointed as the senior special assistant to President Buhari on foreign affairs and diaspora. In November 2018, she was given a new role as chairman/CEO of NIDCOM. The letter for the confirmation of her appointment was sent to the Senate in 2018 by the Presidency but was delayed until May 2019 when the Senate confirmed her appointment.
NIDCOM alongside the Nigerian mission in Egypt and the foreign affairs ministry are currently battling with evacuating Nigerian students from war-torn Sudan.
The students, alongside other nationals, had been stranded at the Egyptian border since April 27.
On Monday, Dabiri-Erewa said Egypt’s borders had been opened for the stranded Nigerians following Buhari’s intervention but with stringent conditions.
Buhari also wrote a separate letter to the Senate seeking the confirmation of the appointment of six federal commissioners of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to fill the existing vacancies in the states.
The nominees are Ayogu Eze, Peter Okpara, Hauwa Aliyu, Rajiya Ayuba, Kolawole Adebola and Ismailia Agaka.
