The Managing
Director of Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN), Kaduna, Ibrahim Boyi, has
tasked youth on innovation and entrepreneurship for faster economic
growth.....
Boyi spoke in a key note address at
the opening of the 6th series of Innovention Roundtable jointly
organized by PAN and Verdant Zeal yesterday in Kaduna.
The theme of the event was “How innovation drives entrepreneurship; the case for SMEs & Start-Ups.”
Boyi said stakeholders, especially
government must respond to new knowledge as well as the fundamental
changes in demographics and technology for growth and sustainability of
the economy.
He urged governments to invest more
in education with special attention to Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) to drive innovation and entrepreneurship.
Declaring the event open, Kaduna
State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, represented by the Commissioner for
Commerce and Industry, Manzo Maigari, said there has to be paradigm
shift in the way things are done in Africa.
The Governor said Nigeria failed in the past to follow the global shift to agricultural revolution and was left behind.
The Executive Vice Chairman of
Verdant Zeal, Dr Tunji Olugbidi, said the focus was on SMEs,
entrepreneurship and startups because they represented Nigeria’s growth
engine for today and the future.
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