VON Partners with SMEDAN to Promote SMEs

Jennifer Inah

Last updated Feb 14, 2024

The Director General of Voice of Nigeria VON, Mr Jibril Ndace says no country in the world develops without a very robust Small and Medium Enterprise sector.

Mr Ndace said this when he paid a courtesy visit to the Director General of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency, Mr Charles Odii in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.He said to enhance the mandate of the agency in promoting SMEs in the country, Voice of Nigeria is willing to partner with SMEDAN in broadcasting the good works being done by the agency in growing SMEs in the country.

“Since you came on board I have followed many of your activities both within the FCT and other part of the country and in our discussions you have also outlined alot of activities you intend to carry out.

“VON is already promoting and propagating may of your programmes through various programmes that you have which speaks to issues on SMEs, issues of poverty alleviation and other things you do.

“Voice of Nigeria is the only public broadcast station station in Africa that broadcast in 8 languages,”Mr Ndace added.

The DG VON also revealed that he is working on starting broadcast in Mandarin, Portuguese and most likely pidgin English.

Mr Ndace revealed that VON is also focused on fighting fake news, misinformation and disinformation about Nigeria and its people.

The Director General of SMEDAN, Mr Charles Odii said the collaboration with VON is needed to shine more light on the activities of he agency.

“Government is doing alot of things but the greatest problem it has is communicating all the things they are doing to the people and I think that it is the role of the Voice of Nigeria to bridge that gap between government and it people so that everyone can take advantage of the information available out there.

“We have have a theory of change at SMEDAN and that theory of change is ‘GROW’ we believe that with the right amount of guidance, the right amount of resources, the right amount of opportunities and the right amount of work force support any small business can grow.

“We want to eqiup people in clusters so that they come together and they can access the right amount of resources, opportunities and support that is our strategy for this administration.”