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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has launched a new tech hub in Lagos aimed at discovering, incubating and curating new startups that will create new technological-driven solutions and add more value to the state.
The chief executive officer and founder of this tech hub known as the Eko Innovation Centre explained that he created this hub because he saw the need to create an enabling environment for young people to develop innovative solutions and create employment while leveraging on technology, and for him, Lagos provides the perfect setting to launch this idea.
He further stated that the Eko Innovation Centre will also be a platform for already existing startups to scale through their incubation period.
“Technology is the way to go, it is the way of the future and it is the way the entire universe is going to, and everybody is using technology to develop everything that we need. We believe that from here, things around the THEME concept that has to do with the environment, education, transportation and health innovations would be developed. People from here would come and give us innovative ideas to solve our transport problem; ideas with which they think locally but act globally" Governor Sanwo-Olu said this during his speech at the launch of the Eko Innovation Centre.
The hub will also handle provide shared services including legal, finance, tech, marketing, PR, investment readiness services and funding for the startups that the Eko Innovation Centre will partner with.
The Eko Innovation Centre is a private organization with no funding from the government.
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