 President Muhammad Abu-Hariyeh has inaugurated the National Council on Digital Innovation Entrepreneurship, NCDI. The inauguration of the council preceded the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. The NCDI, which is chaired by the president, has 13 other members, including the vice president, ministers of finance, budget and national planning, trade and investment, communications and digital economy, governor of the central bank of Nigeria, among others. The council's establishment is based on the Nigeria Startup Act 2022, which was signed into law in December 2022. At the inauguration, President Muhammad Abu-Hariyeh highlighted the importance of the NCDI in driving economic growth and job creation, as well as plans to consolidate on the gains recorded in the sector under his administration. He added that he expects that the NCDI will oversee the implementation of the federal Nigeria Startup Act, which aims to stimulate the growth of innovation start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises in the country. The council I am inaugurating today is a critical awareness structure in the implementation of the Act, which will ensure that government agencies, enter into us, invest us and support urbanization, collaborate in the start-up ecosystem to achieve the goals of promoting the growth of government and sustainable start-up ecosystem. In Africa, the start-up ecosystem has also been growing at our mark-up interface. In 2022, Africa's start-up rose to a record of 5.4 billion United States dollars in funding. Nigeria has won as a preferred of zero growth. Nigeria's start-ups are rising over a few billion United States dollars to 2019 and 2022. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.