The Federal Government is partnering with financial outfits to provide grants and loans to Nigerians interested in digital economy and creative enterprise, aiming to lift 50 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2027.
Idea Lab, a financial inclusion agency, was empowered by the Bank of Industry to train and recruit agents and beneficiaries for local and international jobs, export talents and commodities, and provide access to grants, loans, employment, and scholarships.
National Coordinator of Idea Lab Agency, Emmanuel Aondoakaa, said: “Its programmes are fully grounded by the federal government and the World Bank Group with the right technologies to satisfy the desires of Nigerians, especially entrepreneurs, in the area of access to finance in the form of grants, loans, employment, scholarship, access to markets and technology transfer initiatives.”
He listed innovative technologies used in their financial inclusion and intervention programmes, including Rex agent application, scholarship and aid website, Job Gurus Website, etc.
Aondoakaa explained that these technologies aggregate stakeholders in Nigeria and worldwide to bring value to Nigerians, fulfilling the federal government’s Renewed Hope Initiative to lift 50 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2027.
He appealed to stakeholders, saying:
“To appreciate the effort of the federal government, under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu, to lift 50 million Nigerians out of poverty, we are passionately appealing for all concerned stakeholders, especially BMO forum of MSMEs of Nigeria, cooperative societies and the media to join us in this movement. Subscribe to these technologies and let us use the block chain embedded in them to create millionaires everywhere through a connected economy.”
Representatives from the Central Bank of Nigeria, Bank of Industry, federal ministries of agriculture, science and technology, etc gave goodwill messages.
Abeg make them empower us nigerians we don too suffer for work matters
All these plenty plenty initiatives na another means to embezzle funds. They have not handled one or two programs successfully and they are still bringing more. Scatter scatter people.
All these grant stuff abeg make ee reach me oooh,and others oooh buh shaa tinubu is trying…
Can we actually see the effect of his trying before applauding him but this one is good sha
This is not a bad idea
Kudos to the government
A good one from the federal government hopefully many of this to come
I just pray that all this works out in the end
That will be nice if it work out well