Mr Charles Odii, Director-General, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), has expressed the Federal Government’s readiness to remove obstacles hindering the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

In a groundbreaking initiative to empower Nano, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NMSMEs) in Enugu State, the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) and the Enugu State Government have joined forces to launch

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has secured a ₦1 billion matching fund from the Katsina State Government to boost small businesses in the state.

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Ola Olukoyede, has declared that the era of freezing on individual and company accounts is over. Olukoyede made the declaration on Monday, during a chat with the Director-General, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria, (SMEDAN) Charles Odii in Abuja. The EFCC boss told Odii,…

Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria, (SMEDAN) on Monday revealed that the country has lost over three million businesses to insecurity, fraud, global competitiveness, and lack of ease of doing business. SMEDAN Director-General, Charles Odii, disclosed this in Abuja during a courtesy visit to the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…

The federal government has approved the disbursement of N150 billion grants and loans to small business owners across Nigeria.

A series of unfavourable factors are contributing to the stunted growth experienced by the manufacturing sector. Specifically, FX scarcity, naira depreciation, high-interest rates and cost of raw materials, multiple taxations from state and non-state actors...

Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), under the leadership of the Federal Government, has conducted training and empowerment programmes for selected women-owned farmers’ cooperative societies in Oyo State. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the primary objective of this initiative is to enhance the productivity and export potential of these farmers…

Development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) and Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) are in partnership to encourage the Federal Government to prioritise the implementation of a national policy on women's economic empowerment for sustained development.

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), has revealed that small scale businesses in the country may continue to grapple for breath due to lack of credit facilities.

With a financing access gap of over 99 per cent, Nigeria’s micro, small and medium-scale enterprises (MSMEs) are, perhaps, the least funded globally.

AS resources continue to shrink by the day, the Federal Government has opened the door of partnership with stakeholders to provide the needed support for the survival of over 39.6 million micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) spread across the country.