The Zakat and Sadaqat Foundation yesterday presented seed capital to 20 micro and small-scale trading widows drawn from across the 18 Local Government Council Area of Edo State.  Zakat and Sadaqat Foundation’s Field Officer for Edo, Mr. Abdur-Rasheed Jatto, while presenting the grant at a ceremony said the foundation had empowered 20 indigent widows with…

Players in the Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs), have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to address the challenges facing the sector as Nigeria awaits the constitution of a new cabinet. The stakeholders, who gathered at MISEDI Women Entrepreneurship Summit, yesterday, in Abuja, insisted that the President would only get the economy on track this second…

Microsoft, through its 4Afrika initiative, has entered into a partnership with ICE Commercial Power, a Nigerian-based renewable energy provider, to provide reliable solar power to 10,000 Small and Medium Enterprises ....

Google has established presence in Abia State to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Aba, the state’s business hub.The State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu said that his government’s policy has been favorably disposed....

SEL Capital Limited has launched Customer Experience Centre (CEC) to improve and deliver exceptional experience, providing great opportunity for the financial services company to effectively attend to all of its customers' enquiries, requests and address their complaints. The Managing Director of the company, Segun Opaleye, said: "We are pleased to launch our CEC at Still…

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has trained over 1, 000 small and medium scale business operators and farmers on bank processes and transactions in Cross River State.

The Bayelsa State Government has said that it is poised to grow local entrepreneurs and link them with business partnership across the globe to position the state for industrial development and depend less on oil.

For Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), to contribute significantly to Nigeria's economic growth, government must make conditions attached to accessing various intervention funds less stringent for operators in the sector. The Group Managing Director, Investment One Financial Services Limited, Nicholas Nyamali, at the Investment One SMEs Forum, in Lagos, noting that government has various intervention…

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Ecobank for its various initiatives targeted at promoting financial inclusion in the country, noting that it is key to the government’s diversification agenda. Buhari spoke when the Board of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) visited him at the State House, Abuja. He stated that the pan Africa bank’s support for agriculture…

It is admissible that a strong Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) sector is fundamental to the economic prosperity of any nation, particularly growing economies like Nigeria.

Seals AfDB’s $50m facility with target at women businesses The roles of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) would remain topical in the nation’s discourse and quest for economic growth, the Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Plc, Nnamdi Okonkwo, has said. Describing small businesses as engine of growth that is powered by enterprising and hardworking Nigerians…

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