Nigerian start-up entrepreneurs will get FG’s support – Osinbajo
Nigerian start-up entrepreneurs will
get FG’s support – Osinbajo
Acting President, Professor Yemi
Osinbajo has expressed the readiness of the Federal Government to work with
groups assisting Nigerian start-up entrepreneurs.
Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant (Media) to
President Muhammadu Buhari, in a statement said Osinbajo made the remark
Wednesday in Abuja at a visit to “Civic Innovation Lab”, a non-profit
organization set up to support Nigerians in implementing business ideas that
they have innovated.
Osinbajo’s
assurance came same day the Federal Executive Council approved a new
“National Science, Technology and Innovation Roadmap”, designed to kick-start
the engine of innovation and start-up in Nigeria. He said the Buhari
administration was a government elected to serve and would do so by giving
support wherever possible to groups or organizations that are assisting fellow
citizens to realize their dreams of owning their own businesses.
The Civic Innovation Lab, based in the Federal
Capital Territory Abuja has legal, business development and navigational teams
to assist Nigerian start-up entrepreneurs to move ideas from concept to
implementation.
The Acting President was
accompanied by ministers in the ministry of Trade and Investment (Okechukwu
Enelamah and Aisha Abubakar (State); the two ministers in Budget and Planning (
Senator Udoma Udo Udoma and Zainab Ahmed (State); Finance (Olukemi
Adeosun);Communications Technology (Adebayo Shittu) and Federal Capital
Territory, (Muhammed Bello).
The Program Adviser of the Civic Lab, Mosope
Olaosebikan, thanked Osinbajo for what he called, “an inspirational visit”.
