Says new policy framework underway
By James Emejo
The Director-General, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Dr. Umar Dikko Radda, Thursday said efforts were ongoing by the agency to establish its own microfinance bank (MFB) to cater for financial needs of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country.
He also disclosed that a new MSMEs policy had been finalised and currently awaiting the approval of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
Speaking at a forum for industry correspondents in Abuja, he explained that the proposed SMEDAN MFB will “enable the Nigerian MSMEs have direct access to credit with very simplified and modern means of achieving that.”