Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called for building of bridges across religions and ethnic nationalities in order to ensure a better society.
Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement in Abuja, said the vice president made the call during a visit of a delegation from US-based Bridgeway Community Church to the Presidential Villa.
The delegation, led by its founder and senior pastor, David Anderson, visited Osinbajo alongside a delegation from the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission led by its Executive Secretary, Sule Bassi.
The vice president noted that Nigeria was a country with different ethnic nationalities and dominant Muslim and Christian populations.
In his remark, Anderson, said that there was need to build bridges between Africans and African-Americans.
Anderson said that he was working with the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, and the Foreign Affairs and Information ministries to realise that through what he called the `Door of Return initiative.’
On his part, Bassi said that the Door of Return initiative, among other objectives, aimed to advance exchange of economic cooperation and direct investment between Nigerian and the Diaspora, particularly in the area of tourism and sustainable development.
