Osinbajo assures startup entrepreneurs of FG’s assistance

ACTING President Yemi Osinbajo has expressed the readiness of the Federal Government to work with groups assisting Nigerian start-up entrepreneurs.

He gave the assurance on Wednesday in Abuja during a visit to Civic Innovation Lab, a non-profit organization with offices and facilities set up to support Nigerians in implementing business ideas that they have innovated.

A statement issued by Senior Special Assistant to the President on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, observed that the visit of the Acting President came on a day the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved a new “National Science, Technology and Innovation Roadmap” designed to kick-start the engine of innovation and start-up in Nigeria.

Osinbajo said the Buhari-led 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 statement explained that Civic Innovation Lab, based in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja has legal, business development and navigational teams to assist Nigerian startup 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); the two ministers in Budget and Planning Senator Udoma Udo Udoma and Zainab Ahmed (State); the minister of Finance, Olukemi Adeosun; that of Communications Technology, Adebayo Shittu and the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammed Bello.

The Program Adviser of the Civic Lab, Mosope Olaosebikan, thanked the Acting President for what he called, “an inspirational visit”.