29th June, 2017
The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday expressed the readiness of the Federal Government to work with groups assisting Nigerian start-up entrepreneurs.
Osinbajo said this in Abuja when he visited the “Civic Innovation Lab”, a non-profit organization with offices and facilities set up to support Nigerians in implementing business ideas that they have innovated.
The visit of the Acting President came on a 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.
The acting president maintained that 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“.
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In his remarks, the Programme Adviser of the Civic Lab, Mosope Olaosebikan, thanked the Acting President for what he called, “an inspirational visit”.
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 on the visit by both ministers in the ministry of Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah and Aisha Abubakar (State) and the two ministers in Budget and Planning – Senator Udoma Udo Udoma and Zainab Ahmed.
Others included the minister of Finance, Mrs kemi Adeosun, Minister of Communications Technology, Adebayo Shittu and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji Muhammed Bello.