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Oyo seeks assistance of Nigerians in Turkey to locate missing student


The Oyo State Government is seeking the assistance of Nigerians, especially indigenes of the state resident in Turkey to help find a missing student, Jamiu Adebayo Adekunle.
According to the Special Assistant to the Governor on Diaspora Matters, Mrs Bolanle Sarumi-Aliyu, the student went missing since 2020 before the outbreak of COVID-19.
She also disclosed that Adekunle, who hails from Iseyin, Oyo State, graduated from the University of Ilorin and then proceeded to Uskudar University, Istanbul, for his Master’s degree.
Sarumi-Aliyu, while speaking to journalists at the weekend, said the parents of the missing student had written a letter to the state government through the Diaspora Matters office, seeking assistance to find and return their son home safely. ....

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Engagement of Nigerian Diaspora for National Development: The Challenge of Structural Re-alignment


By Bola A. Akinterinwa
At the epicentre of Nigeria’s foreign policy in 1960 was Africa as the cornerstone and thereafter, in 1976, as the centrepiece. Africa, as cornerstone and centrepiece, was largely defined by Nigeria’s policy of no compromise with the obnoxious policies of apartheid in South Africa and the need for decolonisation. In the eyes of many scholars, Nigeria had a foreign policy with the anti-apartheid war and struggle for decolonisation. This was the first pillar of Nigeria’s foreign policy. When South Africa was freed from the clutches of racial segregation in 1994, the belief was that Nigeria did not have any foreign policy anymore. ....

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