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Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, will host an SME webinar themed “Rebuilding your Business” on Tuesday. The meeting is to take place by Zoom.
The webinar organised in collaboration with FBN Insurance Brokers and FBN Quest, have among other discussants; Mr Tunde Owolabi, Group Executive, Retail Banking (Lagos & West), FirstBank; Olumide Ibidapo, MD/CEO FBNInsurance Brokers and Ijeoma Agboti, Managing Director, FBNQuest Funds.
The SME Webinar is designed to empower participants and promises to provide ways to access opportunities such as business financing, advisory, wealth preservation and appropriate business coverage. These opportunities are essential elements in the rebuilding and rebounding efforts, as well as safety of businesses, towards their continued contribution to national development.
The bank’s Deputy Managing Director Mr. Gbenga Shobo, said; “at FirstBank we identify with the roles played by SMEs towards the continued growth of the Nigerian economy,” adding that without any doubt, SMEs remained the engine of not just the nation’s but the global economy.
“I enjoin every business owner to participate in this event in order to be abreast with essential information to promote the safety and economic security of their business, especially at this time’’
Only recently, FirstBank partnered with the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) in a matching fund scheme to cushion the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on low-cost private schools by ensuring lending at an attractive interest rate.
Since the start of the year, the Bank has held several SME events including; an SME Business Clinic train that moved from Lagos to Abuja and Port-Harcourt in February.
The Bank later embarked on virtual SME-based events, in order to adhere to the social distancing guideline essential to promoting the safety of every participant in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. These SME based webinars include SME Business Clinic in May as well as the SME Connect webinar to promote the growth of education sector held in July amongst others.
Interested participants are required to click here to register.