Half 12 units out the statutory function of the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation, information the September 2026 demand by its continental leaders for solutions on the audit and a constituted board, information the chapters that disowned that demand, and states what the cut up leaves untouched.
I · The Line
“The diaspora requested for her board. Her allies requested who was asking.”
IIIn Plain Englishthe discovering with out the authorized language
The regulation that created her fee says its board members are really useful by NIDO, the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation. In September 2026, the leaders of NIDO’s 5 continental our bodies requested her fee to reply 13 audit observations and to arrange that board, which they mentioned they’d by no means seen. NIDO’s chapters within the UK, the Americas and Africa disowned the assertion, and NIDO UK mentioned it nonetheless had confidence in her. Her fee answered by questioning who the signatories had been. Nobody on both aspect mentioned the board exists. Solely the President can appoint it.
IIIThe Regulation Saysthe controlling textual content, phrase for phrase
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“…shall be on suggestions made by the respective continental NIDO.”
Nigerians in Diaspora Fee (Institution) Act 2017, s. 2(3), operative phrases. Exhibit A-6.
The Act offers the diaspora’s continental our bodies the advice of NiDCOM’s board members. Half 12 information what these our bodies requested for in September 2026 and the way they divided.
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Sept. 21, 2026
NIDO Worldwide demand reported
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Boards constituted on report
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The Physique the Act Consults
Section 2(3) of the NiDCOM Act offers that the appointment of board members shall be on suggestions made by the respective continental NIDO (Nigerians in Diaspora Fee (Institution) Act, 2017, s. 2(3); Exhibit A-6). Nigeria wrote its diaspora into the fee’s governance by means of this physique. Quantity II recorded that the board these suggestions had been meant to fill has not been constituted on any report situated since November 2024 (Exhibit D-9).Documented
NIDO is organized by continent, with branches for Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania, and people branches are the recommending our bodies the Act names (Odeyemi, 2026; Reveals A-6, B-44). Their standing subsequently has a statutory edge that no different diaspora affiliation holds. After they converse on the board, they converse concerning the seats the regulation reserves for his or her nominees.Reported; Inference in remaining two sentences
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The Demand of September 2026
On September 21, 2026, Each day Belief reported a joint assertion, issued in Abuja, by the leaders of NIDO’s continental our bodies below the title NIDO Worldwide. Its signatories had been Chibuzo Ubochi, Chairman of NiDO-Europe and Coordinating Chairman of NIDO Worldwide; Dr. Fatoye Olufemi for NiDO-Africa; Dr. Chris Fayomi for NiDO-Oceania; Dr. Victor Ubani for NiDO-Americas; and Dr. Franca Akinola for NiDO-Asia (Odeyemi, 2026; Exhibit B-44). Voice of Nigeria reported the assertion the identical day as endorsed by 5 continental our bodies (Voice of Nigeria, 2026b; Exhibit B-46).Reported
It requested NiDCOM to reply the 13 observations within the Auditor-Basic’s report with paperwork and to submit its excellent audited monetary statements. It requested the fee to cooperate with the Auditor-Basic and the Public Accounts Committees and to implement the suggestions, together with restoration and remittance to the Treasury the place the auditor really useful them. Sanctions, it mentioned, ought to apply the place competent authorities decide they do (Odeyemi, 2026; Voice of Nigeria, 2026b; Reveals B-44, B-46). It additionally demanded that the statutory Governing Board be constituted and made absolutely useful directly, and it mentioned it was not conscious the board had been constituted. “This isn’t about weakening NiDCOM,” the assertion mentioned (Ogunaike, 2026; Exhibit B-45).Reported
That makes three accounts of the lacking board. The Home mentioned in February 2024 that the board had not been constituted, and Dabiri-Erewa mentioned in November 2024 that she didn’t know whether or not there could be one (Reveals B-23, B-24). In September 2026, the our bodies whose suggestions the Act requires mentioned they knew of no board.Reported
Two additional calls for reached past the audit. NIDO Worldwide requested for diaspora desks within the Ministry of International Affairs and the missions overseas, and it requested that diaspora voting rights be pursued (Voice of Nigeria, 2026b; Exhibit B-46). Each concern how the Republic hears its residents overseas. Neither seems in NiDCOM’s reply.Reported; Documented in remaining sentence
The Chapters That Disowned It
Three NIDO our bodies rejected the assertion within the studies retrieved, two of them by September 28. NIDO Americas, by means of Bukola Olaoye, Chair of its Board of Trustees, and its Secretary, Dr. Toni Ogbanufe, mentioned on September 21 that its management had not been consulted, and it requested that the audit be answered by means of correct institutional channels and never by means of social media (Abiodun, 2026b; Exhibit B-47). NIDO Africa, by means of its public relations officer, Folaji Emmanuel Adura, disputed Dr. Fatoye’s title as its chairman, citing a pending go well with, and mentioned it could search to affix the assertion’s signatories to contempt proceedings (Abiodun, 2026b; Exhibit B-47).Reported
In London on September 28, NIDO UK’s Chairman, Taslim Gbaja-Biamila, rejected any self-appointed physique’s declare to talk for the chapters and positioned on report its “continued confidence in Dr Abike Dabiri-Erewa” (Onje, 2026; Abiodun, 2026b; Reveals B-43, B-47). NIDO UK additionally welcomed NiDCOM’s dedication to present the authorities the paperwork they want, and it described audit observations as no proof of wrongdoing. That assertion is counter-evidence on her management, and the file studies it as such.Reported
NIDO Americas added a degree about its personal home. It described a brand new board for its United States physique, whose officers had been elected by means of what it known as a government-facilitated unification course of, and it requested that this governance construction be revered (Abiodun, 2026b; Exhibit B-47). A recommending physique whose management emerged from a course of the federal government facilitated is the physique the Act asks to appoint the fee’s overseers. The file information the outline and attracts no inference about any officer.Reported; Inference in second sentence
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The Fee’s Reply
NiDCOM answered NIDO Worldwide in an announcement from the workplace of its chairman on September 21. It known as the signatories a “purported” NIDO Worldwide, mentioned NIDO can’t current itself as representing the collective views of all Nigerians overseas, and pointed to the group’s longstanding inner challenges (Abiodun, 2026a; Exhibit C-12). On the audit, it mentioned that an statement isn’t in itself a remaining discovering of wrongdoing. It named the occasion in query because the International Alliance Diaspora Symposium of 2023, held with the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, and added that NIDO Europe’s chairman on the time was amongst these it sponsored to attend (Abiodun, 2026a; Exhibit C-12).Reported
Its reply went to the standing of the critics. Quantity II recorded the identical sample: in September 2025 the fee questioned whether or not Ohanaeze’s complainant spoke for Ohanaeze, and in October 2026 its chairman answered a journalist by attacking his occupation (Reveals C-1, B-14). Every time, the reply involved the complainant.Documented; Inference in remaining sentence
What the Cut up Does Not Contact
Not one of the NIDO statements retrieved mentions the submit (Reveals B-43 by means of B-47). The cut up considerations who might converse for the community and the way the audit must be answered, and the file attracts no inference from both aspect’s silence on the submit. One query stands outdoors the quarrel. NIDO Worldwide’s assertion that the board remains to be to be constituted drew no denial, within the chapters’ statements or in NiDCOM’s reply (Reveals B-45, B-47, C-12).Documented; Inference in remaining sentence
Constituting the board is the President’s activity, on NIDO’s suggestions and topic to Senate affirmation (Exhibit A-6). With out it, the our bodies the Act consults have one lever left, the general public assertion, and their chapters now contest who might make it. A divided recommending community can’t press for the board it’s meant to fill. Since 2017, that leaves the appointing energy the place the Act put it, with the President.Inference
The diaspora’s statutory recommenders requested in public, in September 2026, for solutions on 13 audit observations and for the board the Act requires, and three of their very own our bodies disowned the request. NiDCOM answered by questioning the signatories’ standing. When the demand was reported, 384 days after the submit, the board remained unconstituted on each report situated. The President ought to represent it on the suggestions the Act prescribes and publish the names for Senate affirmation. Half 13 turns to the audit itself.Reported; Demand in remaining two sentences
Supply Notice
Reveals A-6, B-14, B-23, B-24, B-43 by means of B-47, C-1, C-12 and D-9. Studies date NIDO Worldwide’s assertion to September 18, 19 or 20, 2026; the file makes use of the primary reported publication, September 21. NIDO Africa’s assertion is undated within the report retrieved.
IVProof Docket12 information this installment depends on, linked to the originals
Class AAuthorized devices and technical specs
A-6
Nigerians in Diaspora Fee (Institution) Act 2017, s. 2 (Nigeria).
Establishes the chairman as chief government and accounting officer, the requirement of excessive integrity, presidential appointment topic to Senate affirmation, and NIDO suggestions. Retrieved October 12, 2026. Carried from Quantity I.
Class BContemporaneous reporting
B-14
Wahab, A. (2026, October 11). ‘Journalism going to canines’ — ‘You’re responsible as charged’: Dabiri, Oseni conflict. Vanguard.
Establishes the smiling emoji, ‘we is not going to settle for irresponsible journalism,’ Oseni’s ‘responsible as charged’ submit and his assertion that she was extra involved with attacking him than doing her job. No apology reported. Retrieved October 20, 2026. Carried from Quantity II.
B-23
Vanguard. (2024, February 29). Represent NIDCOM board, Reps inform Tinubu.
Establishes the Home movement sponsored by Tochukwu Okere, the assertion that the board had not been constituted in seven years and the directive to the Committee on Diaspora. Creator metadata conflicts; cited below the outlet. Retrieved October 20, 2026. Carried from Quantity II.
B-24
Information Company of Nigeria. (2024a, November 26). Dabiri-Erewa applauds NiDO-Americas for selling curiosity of Nigerians overseas.
Establishes her statements that statutory boards will be constituted solely by the President, that President Buhari didn’t represent some together with NiDCOM’s, and ‘I don’t know whether or not there may be going to be a board for it or not.’. Retrieved October 20, 2026. Carried from Quantity II.
B-43
Onje, O. (2026, October 2). NIDO UK rejects claims to talk for world diaspora, reaffirms assist for NIDCOM. BusinessDay.
Establishes NIDO UK’s assertion of September 28, 2026, by Chairman Taslim Gbaja-Biamila, rejecting NIDO Worldwide’s declare to talk for the chapters and expressing continued confidence in Dabiri-Erewa. Counter-evidence. Doesn’t point out the submit. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
B-44
Odeyemi, J. (2026, September 21). NiDO-WW calls for NiDCOM clarification to Auditor-Basic’s report. Each day Belief.
Establishes the NIDO Worldwide assertion and its 5 continental signatories, the report of over ₦1.3 billion in questioned transactions throughout 13 observations, the calls for, and NiDCOM’s description of the studies as a marketing campaign of calumny and blackmail. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
B-45
Ogunaike, A. (2026, September 21). NiDCOM audit: NIDO calls for solutions, board structure over 13 queries. The Gazelle Information.
Establishes the report’s placement in Quantity I below the Worldwide Audit and Liaison Division, the observations listed, the ‘No response’ entries, and NIDO’s demand that the Governing Board be constituted. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
B-46
Voice of Nigeria. (2026b, September 21). NIDO seeks NiDCOM motion on audit report considerations.
Establishes the transmission of Quantity I of the report back to the Nationwide Meeting on July 17, 2026, the 2023 protection, the observations, and NIDO’s calls for, together with the board, diaspora desks and voting rights. Creator metadata conflicts; cited below the outlet. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
B-47
Abiodun, W. (2026b, September 28). NIDO UK, Americas and Africa disown purported NIDO Worldwide assertion on NIDCOM audit, again Abike Dabiri-Erewa. Status Information.
Establishes the disclaimers of NIDO Americas (September 21), NIDO UK (September 28) and NIDO Africa (undated), NIDO Africa’s dispute over its chairmanship, NIDO Americas’ description of a government-facilitated unification course of, and NIDO UK’s assertion of continued confidence. Counter-evidence. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
Class CResponses of the topic and her fee
C-1
Richards, S. (2025, September 5). Mama diaspora, Dabiri-Erewa, not neglecting welfare of Igbo, NIDCOM replies Ohanaeze. The Guardian (Nigeria).
Establishes NiDCOM’s reply to Ohanaeze, its problem to the complainant’s standing, and its silence on the submit. Retrieved October 12, 2026. Carried from Quantity I.
C-12
Abiodun, W. (2026a, September 21). NiDCOM replies purported NIDO Worldwide over audit question, says statement not remaining discovering. Status Information.
Establishes NiDCOM’s reply questioning NIDO Worldwide’s standing, its reference to NIDO’s inner challenges, and its account of the 2023 symposium with the OACPS. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
Class DData sought and never obtained
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Any inauguration of the NiDCOM governing board after November 26, 2024. Repository: open net information search, together with fee and Presidency bulletins. Searched October 20, 2026.
None situated. Rechecked October 27, 2026. Carried from Quantity II.
◆Authorized Sources and ReferencesAPA seventh version
Authorized Sources
Nigerians in Diaspora Fee (Institution) Act 2017, s. 2 (Nigeria). https://lawnigeria.com/2019/11/14/diaspora-commission-establishment-act/
References
Abiodun, W. (2026a, September 21). NiDCOM replies purported NIDO Worldwide over audit question, says statement not remaining discovering. Status Information. https://www.prestigenewsonline.com/nidcom-replies-purported-nido-worldwide-audit-query-says-not-final-finding/
Abiodun, W. (2026b, September 28). NIDO UK, Americas and Africa disown purported NIDO Worldwide assertion on NIDCOM audit, again Abike Dabiri-Erewa. Status Information. https://www.prestigenewsonline.com/nido-uk-americas-africa-reject-nido-worldwide-claim-support-nidcom-abike-dabiri/
Information Company of Nigeria. (2024a, November 26). Dabiri-Erewa applauds NiDO-Americas for selling curiosity of Nigerians overseas. https://nannews.ng/dabiri-erewa-applauds-nido-americas-for-promoting-interest-of-nigerians-abroad/
Odeyemi, J. (2026, September 21). NiDO-WW calls for NiDCOM clarification to Auditor-Basic’s report. Each day Belief. https://dailytrust.com/nido-ww-demands-nidcom-explanation-to-auditor-generals-report/
Ogunaike, A. (2026, September 21). NiDCOM audit: NIDO calls for solutions, board structure over 13 queries. The Gazelle Information. https://www.thegazellenews.com/nidcom-audit-nido-demands-answers-board-constitution-over-13-queries/
Onje, O. (2026, October 2). NIDO UK rejects claims to talk for world diaspora, reaffirms assist for NIDCOM. BusinessDay. https://businessday.ng/information/article/nido-uk-rejects-claims-to-speak-for-global-diaspora-reaffirms-support-for-nidcom/
Richards, S. (2025, September 5). Mama diaspora, Dabiri-Erewa, not neglecting welfare of Igbo, NIDCOM replies Ohanaeze. The Guardian (Nigeria). https://guardian.ng/information/mama-diaspora-dabiri-erewa-not-neglecting-welfare-of-igbo-nidcom-replies-ohanaeze/
Vanguard. (2024, February 29). Represent NIDCOM board, Reps inform Tinubu. https://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=2346576
Voice of Nigeria. (2026b, September 21). NIDO seeks NiDCOM motion on audit report considerations. https://von.gov.ng/nido-seeks-nidcom-action-on-audit-report-concerns/
Wahab, A. (2026, October 11). ‘Journalism going to canines’ — ‘You’re responsible as charged’: Dabiri, Oseni conflict. Vanguard. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/10/journalism-going-to-dogs-youre-guilty-as-charged-dabiri-oseni-clash/
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