SMEDAN TAKES ONE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ONE PRODUCT (OLOP) TO NASARAWA STATE
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November 6, 2019
INVITATION FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE 2019 ONE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ONE PRODUCT (OLOP) PROGRAMME FORMICRO AGRO-PROCESSORS (COMMUNITY BASED COOPERATIVES/SELF-HELP GROUPS/ENTERPRISES.
December 27, 2019
The Nasarawa State Governor Engr. AbdullahiSule 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 UmaruRadda in his office in Lafia on Monday 4thNovember, 2019.
He said as the chief executive of the young state, he would do whatever he can to improve the lots of the people, adding with a programme like OLOP, MSMEs in the state would benefit from it. He thanked the management of SMEDAN for finding time to visit the state to intimate him of the Agency’s mandate and mission.
“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.”
Earlier the Director General of SMEDAN, Dr. Dikko UmaruRadda told the governor that they were in the state to assist in capacity building for MSME’s in the state, adding this could only be achieved through a robust collaboration.
Dr. Radda said based on the National Survey of MSME’s released this year, Nasarawa state has 385,489 MSME’s, He also noted that the recent survey also shared that Micro Enterprises constituted about 99.8% of the total MSME’s in Nigeria and that roughly 90% are in the informal sector.
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 theNasarawa state MSME council. He said if established, the council would be responsible for marshaling out plans for MSMEs development in the state.
Dr.Radda noted that there is a National Council on MSMEs at the national level headed by the Vice President of the country,whiles the states councils are to be chaired by the deputy governors. The SMEDAN boss further suggested that Nasarawa state should establish mini enterprise parks at the local and state levels, as well as micro finance banks for the beneficiaries of MSMEs so that they can have easy access to fund and affordable interest rates.
