{"id":49867,"date":"2024-09-25T15:39:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=49867"},"modified":"2024-09-25T15:39:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T15:39:44","slug":"picng-smedan-explore-partnership-to-boost-sme-development-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/25\/picng-smedan-explore-partnership-to-boost-sme-development-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"PICNG, SMEDAN Explore Partnership to Boost SME Development in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas (PICNG) on Wednesday held a high-level meeting with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), led by its Director-General, Charles Odii.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Engr. Michael Oluwagbemi, the CEO of PICNG and Odii discussed collaboration opportunities aimed at supporting and expanding Nigeria&#8217;s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the discussion, both agencies emphasized the critical role of SMEs in driving economic growth, job creation, and innovation in Nigeria. With over 41 million SMEs in Nigeria, the sector has been recognized as a major contributor to the country\u2019s GDP, but it faces numerous challenges, including access to affordable energy, funding, and technical support. The potential partnership between PICNG and SMEDAN seeks to address these challenges by providing sustainable energy solutions and creating enabling environments for SMEs to thrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas (PICNG) on Wednesday held a high-level meeting with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), led by its Director-General, Charles Odii. Engr. Michael Oluwagbemi, the CEO of PICNG and Odii discussed collaboration opportunities aimed at supporting and expanding Nigeria&#8217;s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) sector. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-49867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49869,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49867\/revisions\/49869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}