PH Hosts Inter Business Summit, ’Morrow

In the next three days, beginning from tomorrow, Port Harcourt will be abuzz with business fanfare as the Rivers State capital hosts the 2019 OGACONN International Entrepreneurs Business Summit (IEBS).
The conference will be the 10th edition of IEBS with the theme: “The Wider World of SMEs…Get Inspired, Be An Entrepreneur to Industrialise the World”.
The business summit which will last for three days, is expected to host over 5,000 Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs), 1,000 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and over 60 international motivational speakers from different parts of Africa.
According to a statement signed by the programme director of OGACONN, Dr. Larry-Goodwill Ajiola, the summit will also showcase the goods and services of over 100 companies in a trade exhibition throughout the three – day event.
Dr. Ajiola, who is also the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of I.Contact-connect Communication Limited, said the summit would bring together the entire entrepreneurs in Nigeria and expose them to business men and women in other parts of the world.
He said that the event would also feature special awards to  27 outstanding SMEs, business magnates in the oil and gas sector, as well as producing companies in the state.
“There shall be a specialised business exposition for interested SMEs from Singapore, Malaysia, Europe and Holland after the event as packaged by the organisers”, the programme director added.
The Tide reports that the event which holds at LA Kings Hotel, Stadium Road, Port Harcourt, is being put together by Contact Connect in partnership with Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and endorsed by the stakeholders in the economic industry.
Dr. Ajiola  explained: “The event is mainly designed to solve problems facing local SMEs on how to get advantages of local content policy in order to grow and boost capacity which at the long run will be beneficial to all parties, especially financing/information opportunities for the SMEs.
“The objective of the programme among others, is to strengthen the SMEs and the society relationship as supported by the Nigerian law”.