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SMEDAN, NSE team up to produce more entrepreneurs

By BusinessNews Staff on March 3, 2014

The Director General of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) Alhaji Bature Umar Masari, has expressed the determination of the agency to team up with the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) in order to create the necessary entrepreneurial awareness among the numerous registered engineers and also to inculcate in them innovative and resilient spirit that would produce more engineering entrepreneurs.
A statement by chief information officer of the agency, Mr. Ibrahim Mohammed, said the SMEDAN boss, who made the pledge in his office during the visit of the NSE President, Mr. Ademola Isaac Olorunfemi, last week, stressed the need for the society to contribute positively to the recently launched National Enterprise Development Programme (NEDEP). According to him, SMEDAN has a lot to learn from their collaboration.
He described the recently launched National Enterprise Development Programme (NEDEP) by President Goodluck Jonathan as a holistic approach that would create business opportunities for the nation’s teeming youths, create millions of jobs, reduce poverty and increase the national gross domestic product.
He said many people would be gainfully employed in various jobs while many would equally initiate and create jobs on their own and this will lead to multiplier effect of multiple jobs and entrepreneurship development.
Masari enjoined them to utilise the opportunities that abound in 23 Industrial Development Centers(IDC) scattered in Nigeria which would be turned to MSME Parks to further their technological development and can serve as business hub or clusters to entrepreneurs in the engineering fields.
NSE President said there was need to collaborate with SMEDAN so as to create an enabling environment that would foster good business opportunities for would be MSME operators and equally promote the usage and acquisition of technological innovation in the quest for development in the SME subsector.

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