Tinubu launches new platform to connect government with entrepreneurs

President Bola Tinubu has launched the Renewed Hope Enterprise Bridge Initiative designed to serve as a structured channel for continuous engagement between government and entrepreneurs in the country.

He said for long, there has been a quiet disconnect between those who make policy and those who must navigate it daily, noting that it is exactly what the initiative is designed to achieve.

Speaking on Thursday during the official launch of the initiative and its website at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja, the President who was representated by his Chief of Staff, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, pointed out that the administration understands the weight entrepreneurs carried.

“One side works with framework and projections, the other works with immediacy and risk. Bringing both into the same room is not symbolic. It is necessary.

“If policy is to be useful, it must be informed by lived experience. And if enterprise is to thrive, it must be supported by a system that understands it,” President Tinubu said.

He continued: “Therefore, we must listen carefully, interrogate honestly and respond deliberately. You cannot treat what you have not properly diagnosed. And you cannot diagnosed without listening. Across this country, business operate under conditions that would test even the most established system elsewhere.

Earlier, the Minister of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, Barr. Hannatu Musa Musawa, highlighted the potential in the creative industry, noting that it is capable of attracting foreign investment into the country and boost entrepreneurship development.

In her opening remark, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Entrepreneurship Development, Chalya Shagaya, said President Tinubu’s belief in the role of entrepreneurs in driving national growth is both clear and consistent.

“We are seeing reforms aimed at easing compliance, as well as increasing effors to expand access to finance through institutions such as the Bank of Industry, with a strong emphasis on inclusion.