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The Apex Bank hinges the decision to ban forex for maize importation on the need to increase local production, stimulate a rapid economic recovery, safeguard rural livelihoods.

The local rice were mass produced in order to crash the price of Nigeria’s most consumed staple food.
Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/36000-bags-of-rice-from-cbn-funded-anchor-borrowers-program-hit-markets/

Application Closes: August 30, 2020

The Tracking Revolution Challenge is open to startups from across the continent, offering the chance to pitch in front of Coca-Cola executives for the opportunity of securing a pilot project with the company.

read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/coca-cola-tracking-revolution-challenge-call-for-applications-from-african-startups/

Women-led business interested in leveraging technology to scale their businesses
Registered, with operations in Kenya or Nigeria
Strong (well-rounded) founding team, working full-time on the business
Businesses with proven traction in the market (e.g. customers, revenue)
Scalable businesses that meet a real need.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/call-for-applications-ihub-women-in-business-program-cohort-2-nigeria-and-kenya/

The criteria for participation for the program include:

Women-led business interested in leveraging technology to scale their businesses
Registered, with operations in Kenya or Nigeria
Strong (well-rounded) founding team, working full-time on the business
Businesses with proven traction in the market (e.g. customers, revenue)
Scalable businesses that meet a real need.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/call-for-applications-ihub-women-in-business-program-cohort-2-nigeria-and-kenya/

Coca-Cola Africa (Proprietary) Limited has partnered with Disrupt Africa to launch a startup challenge aimed at identifying tech-based solutions measuring the performance of its products in markets largely dominated by informal trade.

The Tracking Revolution Challenge is open to startups from across the continent, offering the chance to pitch in front of Coca-Cola executives for the opportunity of securing a pilot project with the company.

read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/coca-cola-tracking-revolution-challenge-call-for-applications-from-african-startups/

Application Closes: August 30, 2020

The search is on for the best creative start-ups in Nigeria who have a game-changing creative solution or idea that you can’t wait to unveil to the world

The Creative Business Cup is brought to you by the Enterprise Development Centre, Pan-Atlantic University in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation and the Global Entrepreneurship Network Nigeria.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/call-for-entries-creative-business-cup-offering-n1million-international-trip-mentorship-and-other-prizes-to-startups/

Courtesy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)- funded Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), about 36,000 bags of rice, produced during the 2019/2020 dry seasons by local farmers have hit Nigerian markets.

The local rice were mass produced in order to crash the price of Nigeria’s most consumed staple food.
Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/36000-bags-of-rice-from-cbn-funded-anchor-borrowers-program-hit-markets/

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has issued a directive on Monday placing forex ban on importation of Maize into the country.

The Apex Bank hinges the decision to ban forex for maize importation on the need to increase local production, stimulate a rapid economic recovery, safeguard rural livelihoods.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/cbn-places-immediate-ban-on-forex-for-maize-importation/

Youth Employment in Agri-business and Sustainable Agriculture (YEASA) Project is an International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) funded project. The partnering Institutions include Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) , AfricaRice and University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/yeasa-2020-call-for-applications-ifadiita-abuad-others-to-train-and-provide-grants-to-agropreneurs/

Youth Employment in Agri-business and Sustainable Agriculture (YEASA) Project is an International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) funded project. The partnering Institutions include Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) , AfricaRice and University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/yeasa-2020-call-for-applications-ifadiita-abuad-others-to-train-and-provide-grants-to-agropreneurs/

Great ideas are unceasingly birthed in our minds every time every day. Sadly, with no finance, those ideas will never come to fruition or to a level that will serve immense benefit to both the idea generators and the rest of the world.

Imagine Jeff Bezos couldn’t get finance to fund his ideas that has now become the behemoth e-commerce in the whole world. Or had Peter Thiel, an angel investor not invested a sum of $500,000 in Facebook, where would Facebook have been by now? Your guess is as good as mine! Probably, we wouldn’t have had anything as big as Amazon and Facebook today! Anyway, my point is that with no finance, no great idea can see the light of the day. That’s quite simple and uncontroversial!

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/how-to-raise-funds-for-your-sme-through-equity-financing/

The Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency calls for applications into the Oyo State Youth in Agribusiness Tomatoes Project.

The Oyo State Youth in Agribusiness Tomatoes Project is an agribusiness project which aims at developing new entrant young farmers in the state through the Oyo State Agribusiness Incubation Park Centres.

Read More:https://msmeafricaonline.com/call-for-applications-oyo-state-youth-in-agribusiness-program/

The Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency calls for applications into the Oyo State Youth in Agribusiness Tomatoes Project.

The project will provide the participants with enhanced technical, business and entrepreneurial skills for profitable cultivation of tomatoes. Successful applicants will be exposed to the best in technical practices and guidance in tomato production with expected transferable skills to the production of other crops using modern approaches.

Read more and apply : https://msmeafricaonline.com/call-for-applications-oyo-state-youth-in-agribusiness-program/

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West Africa Fellowship runs from January 2021 to December 2021. Application Deadine : August 6,2020

The purpose of the Acumen Fellowship is to develop a community of leaders who challenge the status quo, work across lines of difference and inspire their communities to believe in a brighter future.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/acumen-west-africa-fellowship-2021-call-for-applications-from-entrepreneurs-intrapreneurs-and-organisational-builders/

Farmers to receive seed funding of N100, 000 each

The National Information Technology Development Agency has kick-started a job and wealth creation program which will be supervised by the Federal Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy.

The agency, in a statement, said that the National Adopted Village for Smart Agriculture (NAVSA) program is in line with the government’s drive to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/farmers-to-receive-seed-funding-of-n100-000-each-in-addition-to-digital-agripreneurship-training/

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N49 billion out of the N50 billion Targeted Credit Facility meant to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 on the economy, has been disbursed so far by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). CBN’s Director, Corporate Communications, Mr. Isaac Okorafor has disclosed.

Read more :https://msmeafricaonline.com/80000-msme-operators-and-families-have-benefited-from-covid-19-intervention-fund-cbn/

N49 billion out of the N50 billion Targeted Credit Facility meant to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 on the economy, has been disbursed so far by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). CBN’s Director, Corporate Communications, Mr. Isaac Okorafor has disclosed.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/80000-msme-operators-and-families-have-benefited-from-covid-19-intervention-fund-cbn/

It is Africa’s biggest prize dedicated to engineering innovation. It awards crucial commercialisation support to ambitious African innovators developing scalable engineering solutions to local challenges, demonstrating the importance of engineering as an enabler of improved quality of life and economic development.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/royal-academy-of-engineering-africa-prize-for-engineering-innovation-2021-call-for-applications/

Team RM and UNTAPPED to connect African start-ups with Business Angels through new Initiative

Team RM is launching a major entrepreneurial program entitled African Program for Investment in Entrepreneurship (Team RM- PAIE)
Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/team-rm-and-untapped-to-connect-african-start-ups-with-business-angels-through-new-initiative/

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80,000 MSME Operators and Families have benefited from Covid-19 Intervention Fund – CBN

N49 billion out of the N50 billion Targeted Credit Facility meant to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 on the economy, has been disbursed so far by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). CBN’s Director, Corporate Communications, Mr. Isaac Okorafor has disclosed.
Read more :https://msmeafricaonline.com/80000-msme-operators-and-families-have-benefited-from-covid-19-intervention-fund-cbn/

80,000 MSME Operators and Families have benefited from Covid-19 Intervention Fund – CBN

N49 billion out of the N50 billion Targeted Credit Facility meant to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 on the economy, has been disbursed so far by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). CBN’s Director, Corporate Communications, Mr. Isaac Okorafor has disclosed.
Read more :https://msmeafricaonline.com/80000-msme-operators-and-families-have-benefited-from-covid-19-intervention-fund-cbn/

80,000 MSME Operators and Families have benefited from Covid-19 Intervention Fund – CBN

N49 billion out of the N50 billion Targeted Credit Facility meant to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 on the economy, has been disbursed so far by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). CBN’s Director, Corporate Communications, Mr. Isaac Okorafor has disclosed.
Read more :https://msmeafricaonline.com/80000-msme-operators-and-families-have-benefited-from-covid-19-intervention-fund-cbn/

The Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria (CAC) has today released a statement stating that Companies Certificate of Incorporation issued from the commission from now on will carry the tax identification number of such companies.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/company-registration-certificates-will-now-carry-tax-identification-number-cac/