According to a statement, the Managing Director, BoI, Olasupo Olusi, at the bank’s Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises (iDICE) stakeholders’ forum in Lagos, explained that with a youthful growing population and increasing urbanisation, activities in the digital and creative sector have continued to increase, maintaining that it was imperative to further drive productivity in the Nigerian economy.
According to him, the creative and digital economy was central to the economic strategy of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s transformation plan, as the digital and creative sector plays a key role in driving employment creation, reducing poverty and inequality in the polity.
