Nigeria Plan To Strengthen Their Partnership With Swedish On
Digital Economy
The Vice President Osinbajo meet some Swedish firms, businesses and universities, they plan to strengthen their partnership with Nigeria on Information Communication Technology [ICT] and digital economy,
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Mr Stephan Tillander, the Charge DAffair, Embassy of Sweden in Nigeria, said this on Friday when hespoke with State House correspondents after leading a Swedish business delegation to a closed door meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
The envoy said that the delegation had a very fruitful discussion on digital issues relating to how the internet and modern technology innovations that could help strengthen cooperation between Nigeria and Sweden in their businesses and universities.
We have Swedish companies, Ericsson, Scania, with us in this meeting, we hav representatives from Swedfund, from the Swedish Spider, and from Ideon which have been working with universities to establish parks where people can get help with innovation and incubation and develop businesses.
To my own view think with this ideal the both countries can have a better relationship in between.
I think there are a lot of opportunities in this; if you have a functioning internet and if you have a functioning public transportation, that will facilitate job creation and employment and that will make the economy grow.
This is international trade, international exchange, businesses investments like Ericsson, Scania will help benefit the economies both of Nigeria and of Sweden.
Now we can see how Swedish companies are working with Nigerian partners and production in Nigeria is step by step growing, partnership is expanding and growing, thanks to this Osinbajo, he said.
Also the Senior Special Assistant to the President on ICT, Lanre Osibona, said that the collaboration led to the Sweden Nigerian Innovation Day held in Lagos on December 4, 2018.
Lanre Osibona, said that the collaboration would bring resurgence in commercial trade relationship between the two countries for mutual benefits.
According to Osibona, considering Swedens long history in technology and innovation, the collaboration would boost the quest of the administration to makeNigeria a knowledge hub in Africa......
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