Office Of The Vice President Press Release

*Alongside Clinics, initiative to support growth of small businesss

In fulfillment of its mandate to significantly spur Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Nigeria, the Federal Government will b launching one-stop shops across the country to facilitate smoother government regulation and interface between entrepreneurs and agencies like the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), and others.

Already, the first One-Stop Shop was launched recently in Jos, Plateau State. While the MSMEs clinics which has held in several States already provide at an event, the opportunity for entrepreneurs and local producers in the MSME level to interact with regulatory agencies, the One-Stop Shop creates an ongoing opportunity in a permanent location to achieve the same purpose.

The states that are next in line include Abia, Cross River, Ogun, Akwa Ibom, Kwara, Kano, Benue and the FCT. While these states are slated for September and October, more of the one-stop shops are expected to be launched in other states before the end of the year.

The One-Stop Shop programme is part of the on-going Nationwide Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Clinics for Viable Enterprises (MSME Clinics) initiated by the Presidency in January 2017, and is aimed at providing a platform for convenient, continuous and easy interactions between regulatory agencies and MSMEs doing business in Nigeria.

The MSMEs Clinics, one of the diversification initiatives of the Buhari administration was designed to give small businesses the opportunity to meet with the industry regulators, to talk to them and to hear their problems in an effort to spur local production and harness the nation’s export potential in the process.

Already, one such one-stop shop for MSMEs in Plateau State has officially been launched in Jos on Thursday, 24th of August 2017 and would be housed by the Plateau State Micro-Finance Development Agency (PLASMEDA).

The agencies to be housed in the One-Stop Shops include the Bank of Industry (BOI), Bank of Agriculture (BOA), CAC, FIRS, SON, NAFDAC, Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), and Small & Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN).

It will also be a one-stop destination housing representatives of key government agencies under one roof where members of the public, entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs, can visit to engage with these agencies, make enquiries, report complaints and receive information that can boost their business plans and ideas.

At the launch of the Katsina State's MSMEs Clinic in Katsina in May, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, noted that the MSMEs clinics were the Buhari administration’s effort to bridge the gap between MSMEs and relevant FG regulatory agencies, like NAFDAC, CAC, BOI, FIRS and others and ensure that those agencies become facilitators of businesses, not obstacles to business development.

“The evidence is that over the years government and its agencies are seen more as an obstacle, a hindrance rather than a facilitator, and this is across all arms of government; the executive, the judiciary and the legislature. We have talked extensively about the executive and about the problems that people have interacting with the executive agencies but so it is with the Judiciary as well,” he said.

Similarly, the Vice President had urged public servants to imbibe the administration’s culture of transparency and accountability in discharging their respective duties, especially regarding the creation of an enabling business environment.

“Every time that a public servant is an obstacle to anyone seeking approvals or licenses, he or she attacks the Nigerian economy and its future. Our individual and collective vision or objective as civil or public servants must be advancing the social and economic prosperity of Nigeria,’’ he added.


Laolu Akande
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity
Office of the Vice President
Aso Rock, Abuja
4th September, 2017

OK

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God bless our nation.

We are obviously getting there.

Less importation, more exportation, better GDP.

More MSME, more employment, growth and development.

Best Vice President ever.

Lol

This is. Fulfilling beyond campaign promises



Well done PMB and his agents of CHANGE

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Shameless govt. Your subjects are stranded somewhere in Benue, you are here commissioning one stop shop

This happened some 6days ago but uptill today there is no emergency response

Shame!!!

https://www.nairaland.com/4033223/benue-floods-passengers-stranded-road

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Great initiatives

Wow wow wow

A gud one for naija, but come 2019 we will vote APC out.

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Space bookers

This will surely go a long way to easy the process of doing business if only the staff will comply strongly with the rules ....

Not a single state from the NE #campaignagainsttheNorthEast

this is obviously another revenue generation drive by FG in another format
these corrupt agencies have always been around, so i wonder what they are goin to do differently this time.
confused change

That's great....

Make no mistake this is an Osinbanjo vision and has nothing to do with the visionless general of Daura

How come this one stop shop billed for 6 states has been finished and commissioned in Katsina (since May ) and now Plateau and yet Abia....Rivers....Ogun...Benue etc that are well known commercial hubs have not even done identified a site much less to build.

So Katsina and Plateau rank first in order of equity and fairness and true federalism?

#change indeed

I am one of the interpreneur waiting for this great opportunity because NAFDAC is one of the bigest obstacle among all the regulatory agency.I want to register with them to avoid unnecessary embarrasment

Good way to go

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The Federal Govt is really making efforts, creating channels and expanding shores, it's only left to us the citizens to tap into there initiatives and stop being pathetic in our myopic criticism.

This particular initiative will bridge lots of gaps i.e

Cost of transportation, as major agencies will be under one umbrella;

Easy access to information concerning issues related to these agencies;

Registration of products, businesses, tax identification number and other tax related registrations will be a lot easier;

These and more...I just hope we all use it judiciously.

presidency:
Office Of The Vice President Press Release

*Alongside Clinics, initiative to support growth of small businesss

In fulfillment of its mandate to significantly spur Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Nigeria, the Federal Government will b launching one-stop shops across the country to facilitate smoother government regulation and interface between entrepreneurs and agencies like the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), and others.

Already, the first One-Stop Shop was launched recently in Jos, Plateau State. While the MSMEs clinics which has held in several States already provide at an event, the opportunity for entrepreneurs and local producers in the MSME level to interact with regulatory agencies, the One-Stop Shop creates an ongoing opportunity in a permanent location to achieve the same purpose.......

Bia, when are they launching it in Lagos?? And where would it be located?

jinneyb:
The Federal Govt is really making efforts, creating channels and expanding shores, it's only left to us the citizens to tap into there initiatives and stop being pathetic in our myopic criticism.

This particular initiative will bridge lots of gaps i.e

Cost of transportation, as major agencies will be under one umbrella;

Easy access to information concerning issues related to these agencies;

Registration of products, businesses, tax identification number and other tax related registrations will be a lot easier;

These and more...I just hope we all use it judiciously.

Honestly, it is a great initiative. I pray the civil servants would actually make it work properly, and would not frustrate this noble venture.