As part of Federal Government’s efforts to improve the economy and create more jobs, a group of partners in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSME, space are set to execute various MSME-focused interventions, targeting 1.3 million beneficiaries across 17 States and FCT.
In a statement by Olusola Abiola, Director Information, Office of the Vice President, the MSME and Job Creation Unit of the Vice President’s Office which is coordinating the interventions has disclosed that they are geared towards ensuring the realisation of the Tinubu administration’s commitment to job creation and economic diversification with the MSMEs playing critical roles.
The statement also mentioned that the interventions are to be completed in 17 states and the FCT which are ‘Shared Centres’ for MSMEs providing 4 markets with 300kva Solar Panels and Mini grids to provide 8 hours of electricity a day to 6 Fashion Hubs and 2 Furniture Clusters are for car painting/ drying hubs and cold rooms for sea food storage among others.
It read, “Following Vice President Kashim Shettima’s directives on the speedy execution of the projects, five of the interventions will be completed and delivered by December 2023.
12 other interventions are scheduled for completion before December 2024.
“The States to benefit from the interventions include; Abia, Rivers, Jigawa, Benue, Borno, Lagos, Ekiti, Niger, Sokoto, Enugu, Gombe, Akwa Ibom, Yobe, Ondo, Osun, Bayelsa, Imo and FCT.
MSME partners collaborating with the Office of the Vice President to execute these interventions include Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN, Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, Industrial Training Fund, ITF, National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, Bank of Industry, BOI, Nigerian Export-Import Bank, NEXIM.
Also, Development Bank of Nigeria DBN, Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, Bank of Agriculture, BOA, Raw Materials Research and Development Council, RMRDC, Nigerian Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA and Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, among others, will be part of the collaboration.
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