Nasarawa State Partners SMEDAN

The Nasarawa State Governor, Engr. Abdullahi Sule has reiterated his government’s readiness to key into the One Local Government, One Product (OLOP) initiative of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN).

He made this known while receiving the Director General of SMEDAN, Dr. Dikko Umaru Radda in his office in Lafia, recently. This was revealed in a statement made available to THISDAY.

He vowed to improve the lives of the people, adding with a programme like OLOP, MSMEs in the state would benefit.

Sule stated: “I am very grateful and I want to inform you that I am very much interested in the OLOP programme, am ready to key into this, and I want MSME’s in the state to benefit from it.”

On his part, the Director General of SMEDAN, Dr. Dikko Umaru Radda, told the governor that they were in the state to assist in capacity building for MSMEs in the state, adding this could only be achieved through a robust collaboration.

Radda, said based on the National Survey of MSMEs released this year, Nasarawa state has 385,489 business owners.

He also noted that the recent survey also showed that small businesses constituted about 99.8 per cent of the total MSMEs in Nigeria.

The Director further intimated the governor on the objectives of the OLOP and the Conditional Grant Scheme (CGS) initiatives of the agency.

He urged the governor to facilitate the inauguration of the Nasarawa State MSME Council. He said if established, the council would be responsible for marshaling out plans for MSMEs development in the state.