Globacom Nigeria Limited, a telecommunication company, on Wednesdayannounced plans to empower 17 million SMEs under the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria.
Kamaldeen Shonibare, the Head of Corporate Sales of Globacom, made this known while signing a memorandum of understanding with SMEDAN on the empowerment programme.
Shonibare said: “We are taking our commitment to empowerment programmes a notch higher by signing a memorandum with SMEDAN to empower SMEs, which are the engine of rapid growth in the economy.
“As a proudly Nigerian company, Globacom is partnering SMEDAN to propel the Nigerian economy to greatness through the empowerment of its 17 million members.
“Specifically, we would be empowering these enterprises through grants, soft loans and capacity training programmes designed to equip entrepreneurs with current value-adding global best practice that would make them achieve more.
“We shall be supporting SMEDAN and its affiliates with funds, sensitization workshops and business tools.
“We will also support the Industrial Development Centres.”
Also speaking, Alhaji Bature Masari, the Director-General of SMEDAN, expressed gratitude to Globacom for their support for SMEs.
Masari said: “SMEDAN is happy that a telecommunication company is partnering with us for the first time.
“This is a welcome development.
“We have been doing our best possible to empower more and more entrepreneurs to meet up with the mandate of job creation and we are glad that individuals and multinationals are supporting us.”
Masari urged more companies to endeavour to partner with SMEDAN to build more formidable SMEs for the growth of the nation and for job creation.
NAN reports that officials of small and medium enterprises and cooperative associations witnessed the signing of the MoU.
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