Nigeria in talks with AfDB for $500 million innovation fund ― Osinbajo Nigeria in talks with AfDB for $500 million innovation fund ― Osinbajo
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Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo has said that the Federal Government is currently in talks with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to set up a $500million Innovation Fund.
He said the fund which will provide support for the ecosystem across four pillars which include Infrastructure support, Finance, Skills Development and Technical Assistance.
The VP, represented by Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Abdullahi, said this at the Startup and Developer event organised by Google.
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NITDA: Consolidating the Gains of the IT Sector In 2020, By George Abah
While leaders in different sectors saw the COVID-19 pandemic as a helpless doomsday, the leadership at NITDA saw opportunities.
Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, Director General, NITDA
Nigerian should not lag behind as the world rushes to grab the opportunities presented by new technologies in this period of a devastating pandemic. NITDA should ride on and keep the torch alight in helping Nigeria match the rest of the world.
The year 2020 came almost like apocalypse. Just as the world settled into a new year, news filtered in that an unknown virus was afflicting residents in China’s Wuhan province. Many dismissed the initial news as China’s own problem, with former U.S. president, Donald Trump, mockingly calling what was discovered to be a virus of the corona family as the ‘China virus’. No one expected that the coronavirus would travel beyond Wuhan and cause one of the widest disruptions to human a