A United States of America based healthcare expert and a leading member of the League of Nigerians In Diaspora, LNID, Chief Shegun Olagundoye, has urged investors and professionals in diaspora to return home to invest in the large potentials that abound in the nation’s medical tourism and other sectors of the economy.
Statistics show that there are hundreds of thousands of Nigerian Americans in different cities, professions and callings in the United States of America. According to the Migration Policy Institute, 29 percent of Nigerian Americans over the age of 25 hold a graduate degree, compared to 11 percent of the overall US population.
In 2017, the total amount remitted back to Nigeria by Nigerians In Diaspora, stood at $22billion, a figure that is $2billion higher than the $20billion Nigerian national budget of the same year. In 2018, the amount remitted home stood at $25billion, $1billion higher than the $24billion national budget of that year.
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