First Bank Holds SME Webinar For Entrepreneurs
Nigeria’s premier and leading financial institution, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, has concluded arrangement to hold a Small and Medium Enterprise webinar to enlighten entrepreneurs on ways to rebuild their business.
The event, which has as theme “Rebuilding Your Business”, will hold by 10am on Tuesday, 10th November, 2020.
The bank, in a statement, said the event is being organised in collaboration with FBN Insurance Brokers and FBN Quest.
Expected as discussants are Tunde Owolabi, Group Executive, Retail Banking (Lagos & West), FirstBank; Olumide Ibidapo, MD/CEO FBNInsurance Brokers, and Ijeoma Agboti, Managing Director, FBNQuest Funds.
The bank added, “The SME Webinar is designed to empower the 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 Deputy Managing Director, FirstBank, Mr. Gbenga Shobo, said the bank identified with the indelible roles played by SMEs towards the continued growth of the Nigerian economy.
He noted that the SMEs are the engine of not just the Nigerian economy but the global economy.
“I enjoin every business owner to participate in this event in order to be enlightened with essential information to promote the safety and economic security of their business, especially at this time’’
FirstBank recently 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.
The Bank has also 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.
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