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| Vice President Yemi Osinbajo |
Mr Stephan Tillander, the Charge D’Affair, Embassy of Sweden
in Nigeria, said this on Friday when he spoke 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 could help strengthen cooperation between Nigeria and Sweden, their
businesses and universities.
“ We have Swedish companies, Ericsson, Scania, with us in
this meeting, we have 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.
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“We see how these can strengthen relations between these two
countries.
“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.
“So, this is international trade, international exchange,
businesses investments like Ericsson, Scania will help benefit the economies
both of Nigeria and of Sweden.
“We see how Swedish companies are working with Nigerian
partners and production in Nigeria is step-by-step growing, thanks to this and
partnership is expanding and growing, thanks to this,’’ he said.
Lanre Osibona, the Senior Special Assistant to the President
on ICT, said that the collaboration led to the Sweden-Nigerian Innovation Day
held in Lagos on December 4, 2018.
He said that the collaboration would bring resurgence in
commercial trade relationship between the two countries for mutual benefits.
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Osibona said that considering Sweden’s long history in
technology and innovation, the collaboration would boost the quest of the
administration to make Nigeria a knowledge hub in Africa. (NAN)