The Niger Delta Young Professionals, NDYP held the 2021 Niger Delta MSME Summit, with the theme ‘Stimulating MSMEs Growth Beyond Oil’, on February 12 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
At the end of the Summit, stakeholders, among other key recommendations, called for the establishment of a Niger Delta Entrepreneurship Development Hub(NDED-HUB) to serve as a training platform for teeming youths in the region.
Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Wabote who was Guest Speaker at the Summit, harped on five critical issues limiting MSMEs interventionists efforts, among which were the need to steadily shift away from oil to sustainable energy and the need for Federal Government to remove encumbrances to enable small businesses thrive.
Another agenda set out by the stakeholders was the need to create a database of small businesses in the region to ease the process of providing them with requisite tool, as well as funding. They also decried that MSMEs in Niger Delta have not received enough attention.
Click on the PDF file below to download the full report of the Summit.
