The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN has expressed readiness to champion the current administration’s economic prosperity agenda, particularly by addressing obstacles hindering SME growth and protecting them from inflationary pressure.
Director-General, SMEDAN, Charles Odii, who stated this in a statement, revealed plans to create an enabling environment for the smooth operation of forty million small businesses, which will in turn provide over sixty million jobs.
The DG said the move followed a meeting with the President at the presidential villa in Abuja, where he discussed the agency’s ‘GROW Nigerian’ strategy designed to offer SMEs essential guidance, resources, opportunities, and workforce support to thrive.
He said President Tinubu reiterated his commitment to SMEDAN’s core mandates of rural industrialisation, job creation, and livelihood enhancement at the meeting.
Odii said SMEs are central to the president’s mission to eradicate poverty and ensure prosperity reaches all corners of Nigeria.