Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has made it clear that the Muhammadu Buhari government is ready to work with groups that are helping the Nigerian start-up entrepreneurs.
Speaking today, Wednesday when he visited the Civic Innovation Lab, a non-profit organization in Abuja, with offices and facilities set up support Nigerians in implementing business ideas that they have innovated, emphasized that the government of Buhari would continue to serve by giving support wherever possible to groups or organizations that are assisting fellow citizens to realize their dreams of owning their own businesses.
The Acting President’s visit which coincided with Federal Executive Council (FEC’s) approval of a new “National Science, Technology and Innovation Roadmap,” designed to kick-start the engine of innovation and start-up in Nigeria.
The Civic Innovation Lab, based in FCT, 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 on the visit by both ministers in the ministry of Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah and the minister of State in the same ministry, Aisha Abubakar; the two ministers in Budget and Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma and Zainab Ahmed; the minister of Finance, Olukemi Adeosun; that of Communications Technology, Adebayo Shittu and the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Muhammad MusaBello.
The Program Adviser of the Civic Lab, Mosope Olaosebikan, thanked the Acting President for what he called: “an inspirational visit.” [myad]
