SMEDAN creates over 90,160 jobs in Q1, empowers 116,661 entrepreneurs nationwide – Report
…strategic partnerships, tools, and training power agency’s impact across Nigeria By Emmanuel Elebeke ABUJA – The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has reported the creation of over 90,160 new jobs in the first quarter of 2025, driven by targeted empowerment programs and strategic collaborations. According to its Q1 performance report, the […]
SMEDAN advocates database for MSMEs
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has emphasized the need to create a database for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria
CAC registration: SMEDAN assists 14,000 MSMEs in 2017
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) said it assisted about 14,000 Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) operators in Nigeria to formalise their businesses through registration with Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and opening of bank accounts.
SMEDAN, others train prison inmates on entrepreneurship
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) said it has trained 576 prison inmates since 2009, noting that 146 of those released have since started their own businesses.
Betsy Obaseki tasks SMEDAN, NEPC on export of rural agric products
Wife of Edo State Governor Mrs Betsy Obaseki has expressed her readiness to partner, train and provide soft loans to over five hundred members of a Non- Governmental Organisation, Women in the New Nigeria, on their Farmer’s Mart initiative towards ensuring that their farm produce meet the quality that is fit for export.
AMEN seeks FG’s intervention to stop SMEDAN evacuation notice
THE Association of Micro Entrepreneurs of Nigeria (AMEN) has called on the federal government to intervene in an issue concerning the evacuation notice issued to them by the authorities of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) on January 29, 2018. The President of AMEN, Mr. Fredrick Nwokeleme made this call on Friday during a press briefing in Lagos.
SMEDAN charges industries to upscale local content
kaduna—The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN, has charged industries across the country to upscale local content in their operations.
SMEDAN transforms 1,500 micro firms into formal sector – DG
By Franklin Alli Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN, yesterday, said it has assisted 1,500 micro businesses across three Nigerian states to be active players in the formal sector of the economy. Dr. Dikko Umaru Radda, Director-General/ Chief Executive Officer, SMEDAN disclosed this in Lagos during SMECONNECT 2017, organised for operators in […]
MSMEs development: SMEDAN moves to execute one local government one product programme
THE Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has commenced moves aimed at actualising the One-Local Government-One Product (OLOP) programme as provided for in the 2017 appropriation Act.
SMEDAN, SAGE to train 5400 school children on entrepreneurship
THE Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN) in collaboration with US- based Students for Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE) is set to train a total number of 5400 school children from 108 schools across Nigeria under the National School Entrepreneurship Programme (N-SEP).
SMEDAN trains 54 teachers in Ondo on small scale enterprises
The Small Scale Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has trained 54 teachers from different primary and secondary schools in Ondo State.
