The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Matters, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has revealed that Nigerians living abroad remitted over $35 billion back to the country in 2016.
She stated this during her visit to the executive members of the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS). Dabiri-Erewa said,
“In 2016 they remitted $35 billion which is higher than what was remitted in 2015.
This remittance by Nigerians living abroad is the highest in Africa and the third largest in the world.”
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