Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country, with 140 million people (one-seventh of all Africans), and it’s one of the few nations divided almost evenly between Christians and Muslims. Blessed with the world’s 10th-largest oil reserves, it is also one of the continents richest and most influential powers—as well as one of its most corrupt democracies.  Across the country, political power is a passport to wealth: according to Human Rights Watch, anywhere from $4 billion to $8 billion in government money has been embezzled annually for the last eight years. The state has all but abdicated its responsibility for the welfare of its people, roughly half of whom live on less than $1 a day. 

In this vacuum, Nigerians have almost lost their identity; some have become religious fanatics and have resorted to violence to resolve the simplest issues with the ultimate fuel being our lack of security and paramilitary control. Others have turned to a life of crime and fraud to survive and all this has earned Nigeria a bad reputation worldwide. 

The truth is Nigeria is a very wonderful country; the most populous black nation with so much resources and culture. Nigerians are one of the smartest people on earth. Nigerians are innovative and self reliant and most especially Nigerians are hard workers. The Nigerian Reunion Organization recognizes that Nigerians and Nigeria is more than the perception that people have worldwide so it is time to promote Nigerians as a people. We seek to promote our culture, our different religions, our innovations, our inventions, our abilities, our God given wealth and resources and most especially our people.

The Nigerians Reunion organization will do this by bringing Nigerians together to show the world what we are really about. How we strive to get educated, how the average Nigerian picks him or herself up by the boot straps. We will do this by engaging the media, pushing for media power, buying media time and changing our fate as part of a forgotten continent.