The Chancellor of E-Boot Camp Limited, Mr. Lai Omotola, has predicted that Nigeria could rise “to become the world’s fifth largest economy by 2038, that is, two decades from now, if the entrepreneurial spirit could be liberated in the country.
He made this known while unveiling his firm’s training programme tagged ‘Think Entrepreneurship,’ which is aimed at building an army of one million entrepreneurs. When achieved, it will radically transform the country’s economy in the next decade. The training is scheduled to hold in Lagos, on Friday.
“This is the target of the think entrepreneurship training programme we are introducing. We target to get one million people to commence entrepreneurship and in the next decade and produce businesses that are in billions turnover,” he said.
Omotola further explained that with the training, E-Boot hopes to demystify entrepreneurship and also make it friendly. He said the firm is convinced that if it can positively change the mindset of the Nigerian entrepreneurs, then it can build the most robust economy.
“With the potentials we have in our country, if we are able to liberate the entrepreneurial spirit in this country, then in the next two decades, Nigeria should be the world’s fifth largest economy in the world,” he hopes.
Omotola noted that big economies all over the world have always been propelled by the private sector, which is led by entrepreneurs because they are the ones that build economies and not government. What the government does, he said, is to create policies that will be pro-business and not anti business.
E-Boot, he revealed, initiated the programme after due consideration and in-depth study of Nigeria’s socio-economic situation, which showed that the solution “to our problems does not depend 100 percent on the person that becomes the president in 2019.”