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Groups Restates Commitment Towards Entrepreneurial Dev In PH
The National Association of Small Scale Industrialists NASSI has reassured it commitment towards the promotion of entrepreneurial growth and development in the country.
National President of the association, Dr Solomon Daniel in a chat with newsmen said the association is poised to promote the development of entrepreneurs in Port Harcourt and the nation at large.
He said his journey to Rivers State was for the inauguration of a seven man electoral committee was to ensure an organised transition for the association.
He noted that NASSI would succeed more as a team which could only come through determination and selfless service to the association, adding that united will stand.
He pointed out that lots of opportunities such as loans and other incentives exist in the country but were inaccessible because of lack of developing focus and unity of purpose among members of the association.
He commended the Rivers State Ministry of Commerce and Industry for their intervention into the crisis of the Rivers State chapter of the association and urged the members of the association to embrace peace and work collectively to achieve their goals and objectives.
The president also charged the members to ensure sanity in their conduct as members of the association.
In a related development, an entrepreneur, Mrs Evylen Iheanacho has reiterated the need for government to develop Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to end the menace of unemployment in the states and nation at large.
Mrs Iheanacho says, “the importance of SMEs to the nation cannot be overemphasized, as they drive the economy of any nation, stating that the problem of Nigeria as a country is rooted in her inability to develop the sector.
She called on the government to act fast and also ensure that the efforts toward financing SMEs get to the people, saying that monitoring training programmes and loans released to enterprises would go a long way in developing the industry.
By: Lilian Peters