President Joe Biden’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement (PAC-ADE) will make an official visit to Nigeria in July as part of efforts to strengthen bilateral relations between the United States (U.S.) and Nigeria as well as enhance relations with people of Nigerian descent who live in America.
This was disclosed on Tuesday at the end of the U.S.-Nigeria Binational Commission (BNC) in Abuja by the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Kurt Campbell.
Campbell and Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar, co-chaired the sixth round of the U.S.-Nigeria BNC in Abuja from April 29 to 30, 2024.
Campbell, who led the U.S. delegation, announced a visit of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement to Nigeria in July. He also announced a major symposium in Washington, D.C. in October to bring together American and Nigerian technology leaders.
Recall that the 12-member advisory council, led by Deniece Laurent-Mantey, as Executive Director, is an offshoot of the 2022 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit and has two Nigerian-Americans as advisers, namely Osagie Imasogie and Chiney Ogwumike.
Ogwumike is a two-time WNBA All-Star for the Los Angeles Sparks and a full-time, multi-platform ESPN commentator and NBA analyst. She is one of the only full-time professional athletes to also currently hold a full-time regular national sports media broadcast position.
In August 2020, she became the first black woman to host a national daily sports talk radio show.
Imasogie, on the other hand, is the chairman of the Investment Bank and SEC/FINRA registered Broker-Dealer, Quoin Capital and Quoin Advisors. In addition, Imasogie is a co-founder of PIPV Capital, a private equity firm that is focused on the life sciences vertical and has invested over $1 billion into that industry.
Prior to co-founding PIPV Capital, he established GlaxoSmithKline Ventures and was its founding Vice President. At the Binational Commission, the U.S. delegation welcomed Tuggar’s vision for the future of Nigeria’s foreign policy as laid out in his 4D doctrine of Democracy, Development, Demography and Diaspora. The two sides discussed how U.S. assistance could augment Nigeria’s efforts in these areas.