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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday said plans are afoot to transform the Sabo Industrial Estate in Yaba area of the State to a technology hub and another Silicon Valley where new set of entrepreneurs and innovators will be raised to address the challenges confronting the nation in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector.

Silicon Valley, which is in San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States, is home to many of the world’s largest high-tech corporations and thousands of startup companies.

Governor Ambode, who spoke during an extensive inspection tour across the State, said government will actualize the plan of transforming Sabo to the new hub for technology in 2017 and assist the already established technology incubators in the area to achieve their full potentials.

Some of the technology outfits visited in the area by the Governor included Ardela, IDEA and CC Hub, among others.

The Governor, who was joined on the inspection by top government functionaries and former Minister of Communications and Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, said government was desirous of assisting entrepreneurs in the ICT sector to become good startups, adding that his administration would explore all the available initiatives in that regard.

He said to start with, entrepreneurs in the sector would be allowed to access the N25billion Employment Trust Fund (ETF), which is an initiative of his administration, to grow their businesses, as well as other interventions from the State’s Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment.

He said: “I decided to come here just for me to feel the state of things and to learn about your challenges. Our government is seriously committed to assisting entrepreneurs like the ones here to be able to be good startups.

“I want to also say that we will use our Employment Trust Fund to support this concept here.”

The Governor said one of the factors considered when government was setting up the ETF was the need to set up incubators, but with the progress made in that regard by the private sector, government would now only build on the existing technology incubators.

“All we need to do is to now send people here and also support by way of infrastructure to scale up this place and others like this that can help in churning out more people.

“Our aim is to create enabling environment for our youth to thrive, to be more creative and enterprising. We so much believe in innovation and creativity. We strongly believe that youths are the ones that can take us out of this economic recession and the truth is that we must create enabling environment for our youths to optimally utilize their talents.

“You can recall that throughout my campaign, I promised to use tourism, hospitality and entertainment to create employment and jobs for our youths. This is the fundamental basis our government is built upon.

“The whole idea is that these young ones here should not just leave this place and go back to where they started from. I think that value chain is what we as government must tap into and then we would be able to move this nation forward. I believe strongly that the youths are the future of this country and we need to pay greater attention to everything that they are doing and I also believe strongly that technology is the key that we are going to use to grow this economy,” he said.

The Governor said government would explore the possibility of addressing the power challenges confronting the area, especially by linking the estate to the Mainland Independent Power Project.

In her remarks, the former Minister (Johnson) commended the initiative of Governor Ambode on the plan to scale up the industrial park in Sabo, saying that the development signaled a new beginning for the technology sector.

Speaking at Ladipo Market where he was received by hundreds of traders amidst pump and pageantry, Governor Ambode said from next month, his administration will commence construction of Alhaji Akinwunmi Street and Ladipo Street, as well as Obagun Avenue, off Fatai Atere Road.

He also said that a multi-layer car park will be constructed to address the chaos in the area in terms of parking of vehicles, but solicited the cooperation of the traders and residents of the area, saying that government would organize a stakeholders’ meeting to discuss modalities for the construction.

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Vision 2020

Na u post,na u first comment ! Sigh

LasgidiOnline:
wao

best governor so far

Governor with a vision

Yabacon Valley

Rocket Internet Group
Jumia
CC Hub
Leadpath
Incubation Hub

Itesiwaju Eko lo je wa logun.

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Y'aba, Lagos Nigeria, where my grandma schooled before relocating to Pays

My country people, dem dey talku talku...

Wow, thats nice

Eko oni baje

Itesiwaju eko ati ile Yoruba lo je wa logun

Proudly Baa wa

Other states wish they have a gov like this

Siscooh:
Y'aba, Lagos Nigeria, where my grandma schooled before relocating to Pays

WHO ASK YOU?

i didnt believe in Ambode during the campaigns..but im now a big fan of his. I like his Visionary plans!

All i see is 'demolitions in yaba-ambode'

We love you sir. You are indeed a visionary. What make a country great is its ability to plan ahead with a good data base at its disposal; making forecast and working to achieve great goals with the indices available.

This is a governor!

BAALE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE!

Good One!


Alaba, Ladipo, Trade fair and there likes should be transformed also may be it will send some people back to there region

Them dey naija dey form government Mark zuberack come show dem wetin dey their domot. shaking my head. They should watch where the world is gravitating towards and get specialties in that area as advisors to tell them how to keep abreast. It may take another mark to lead them to another hub. sleeping government.

From Madness to Madnessss... only scientists will understand

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Lagos State Governors are called Atalkinado. They Talk and Do. They are Doers of Their Words.
From Fashola to Ambode is straight win Back2Back

What of the computer village in Ikeja. It will more easier to develop computer village for technological drive. Never the less Yaba might also serve due to the presence of two great tertiary institutions i.e Yabatech and Unilag. Thumb up for Ambode.

Thats my Gov.

Every other state in Nigeria is welcomed to learn how we are achieving this fit.


10 years from now, no state will achieve this much

20 years from now, the closest state will make a giant stride.

Other states will understand after half a decade.

tens4real:
WHO ASK YOU?

Nairaland!!!!
Please stay far with your sadness, bitterness that makes you unleash wickedness on simple Nairalanders enjoying themselves on this forum.
Keep off!

vadeonly:
What of the computer village in Ikeja. It will more easier to develop computer village for technological drive. Never the less Yaba might also serve due to the presence of two great tertiary institutions i.e Yabatech and Unilag. Thumb up for Ambode.

1. Computer Village is just a trade hub......and I understand it will be relocated to Katangowa in Ipaja
2. Yaba as a Silicon-Valley model is going to be a Technology hub, where a lot of innovative solutions and technology will be developed. Added to this, it will also become an investor hub. The early arrive-rs ccHub, Andela and co had the foresight and Lagos state has done well to seek to accelerate it

tens4real:
WHO ASK YOU?

I regret answering you before. I just checked your profile and realized you are a small rat!