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Small and Medium Enterprises operators have said that Nigeria's government support at all levels is key to building capacity and enhancing the growth of entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
They stated this at a two-day Masterclass workshop organized in Lagos by BusyBee Academy with the theme, “Next Level”. They also advised participants at the workshop to have the ‘never give up’ attitude towards their chosen professions and businesses, saying: “Take away fear, there is no new business, allow your passion to work for you, study the business and look for loopholes and tap into it, there is always somebody in that market for you”.
The stakeholders who spoke at the event include the Managing Director, BusyBee Group, Mrs. Bisi Sotunde and Chief Executive Officer, Open Hands Decor, Mr. Akin Ariyo, among others. BusyBee is an event management outfit with an event management training academy that conducts annual workshops which brings entrepreneurs across the country together with a mandate to promote sound entrepreneurial practice in the event planning industry.
The workshops are targeted at bridging identified gaps among entrepreneurs, in which business start-ups lack capacity to continue in business, retain customers, keep good business record, among other challenges.
Sotunde said that the academy has trained over 500 entrepreneurs in the last nine years, saying: “There are a lot that we have to offer, we want government to partner with organizations like ours to create a lot of capacity building workshops, with subsidized training so that we can have more people attend workshops of this sort. We want government to partner with us to do it at a subsidized rate, so we can impact more people.”
She said that the events industry has contributed so much to the Nigeria GDP, stating: “The state and FG need to partner with firms like ours. We are a platform for empowerment for the event industry.
Research shows that the events industry in Nigeria contributes N10 billion to the GDP of the country. Busybee group, an event management outfit, event services and the training which is the academy, we have been in the industry for more than nine years now, the academy is the arm that is handling this workshop and till date.
