Poverty Alleviation:  FG Partners Financial Agencies

Federal Government‘s poverty alleviation projects  targeting 50 million Nigerians is further being fine tuned as the government  partners with selected financial agencies   as veritable platforms for disbursement  of grants and loans to Nigerians interested in Digital Economy and Creative Enterprise aimed commenced   project of piverin bid to lift 50 million Nigerians out of poverty between now and 2027, the Federal Government is partnering  with some  financial  outfits as veritable platforms for releasing of grants and loans to Nigerians interested in Digital Economy and Creative Enterprise .
The poverty – alleviating  partnerships was on Monday disclosed to pressmen in Abuja during an interactive session with one of the agencies ; Idea Lab  ,.
The agencies endorsed  are veritable platforms  used by the Central Bank of Nigeria ( CBN) , Bank of Industries ( BOI) etc , for the purposes  of the project .
Speaking at the interactive session with journalists , the National Coordinator of Idea Lab Agency , Emmanuel Aondoakaa, said Idea Lab was chosen by the Federal Government of Nigeria along with some others , for massive poverty eradication among Nigerians between now and 2027.
The IdeaLab Agency   according to him,  is empowered through the Bank of Industry by the Federal Government of Nigeria to train , prepare and recruit agents and beneficiaries for local and international jobs , export talents and commodities by also providing access to grants , loans , employment, scholarship etc .
“ Its programmes are  fully grounded by the Federal Government of Nigeria and 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 added that some of the innovative technologies used in operating their financial inclusion and intervention programmes for interested Nigerians are Rex Agent application , Scholarship and Aid Website , Job Gurus Website etc .
He explained further that through the  technologies , all the stakeholders in Nigeria and  from all over the world , are being aggregated to bring value to Nigerians in fulfilment of the Federal Government mantra of Renewed Hope Initiative of President Bola Tinubu , to lift 50million 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 block chain embedded in them to create millionaires everywhere through a connected economy “.
Rpresentatives from the Central Bank of Nigeria , Bank of Industry, Federal Ministries  of Agriculture, Science and Technology etc , were among stakeholders present at the interactive session.

By: Nneka Amaechi -Nnadi