In a bid to elevate 50 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2027, the Federal Government says it is partnering with some financial institutions to give grants to those interested in Digital Economy and Creative Enterprise.
The poverty–alleviating partnership deal was disclosed on Monday in Abuja by one of the agencies involved, Idea Lab, which specialises in financial inclusion and is a veritable platform used by the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Bank of Industry, among others, for grants and loan disbursement.
Speaking on why the choice was made, the National Coordinator of Idea Lab Agency, Emmanuel Aondoakaa, said the FG and some others chose the firm to support its quest for poverty eradication.
He explained that the FG and World Bank Group fully support the programmes and have 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, scholarships, access to markets and Technology Transfer Initiatives.
Aondoakaa revealed that some of the innovative technologies used in operating their financial inclusion and intervention programmes for interested Nigerians include the Rex Agent application, Scholarship and Aid Website, and Job Gurus Website.
He further explained that through the technologies, all the stakeholders in Nigeria and across the world were being aggregated to bring value to Nigerians in fulfilment of the FG’s mantra of the ‘Renewed Hope Initiative’ of President Bola Tinubu, to lift 50 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2027.
“To appreciate the effort of the Federal Government of Nigeria 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 blockchain embedded in them to create millionaires everywhere through a connected economy,” Aondoakaa appealed.