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The Deputy Governor, Financial System Stability Directorate, Central Bank of Nigeria, Aisha Ahmad has encouraged small businesses in Nigeria on being intentional about overcoming the challenging ecosystems in order to contribute their quota to the growth of Nigeria’s economy. According to her, SMEs represented a huge potential to drive economic …

The Executive Director of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council, Dr Ezra Yakusak, has said the Federal Government has disbursed N50bn Export Development Fund to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and stakeholders within the export value chain to boost non-oil exports. Yakusak said this at a programme in Ado-Ekiti, the …

By Michelle Knowles and Oladapo Adeigbe Access to finance remains one of the single biggest constraints for small and medium-sized businesses on the African continent.  Nevertheless, it is important to understand the exact nature of the financing challenges experienced in order to design the tools to build financing capacity in …

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has warned against what it described as collateral damage the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria would cause. Its Director-General, Dr Muda Yusuf said many businesses, especially small medium enterprises (SMEs), leverage the micro-blogging social media platform for marketing and other promotional …

The SME radio programme organised by Fidelity Bank Plc to educates and inspires Nigerian entrepreneurs, on the radio station, Inspiration 92.3 FM, in Lagos State has been extended to Ibadan and Uyo. Inspired by its success rate, the financial institution noted that , the broadcast would now be air on …