Just 24 hours left for the much-awaited 2020 CICAN workshop

By allcitynews.ng

The 2020 much-awaited workshop by journalists covering Real Sector under the aegis of Commerce and Industry Correspondents Association of Nigeria (CICAN) is just 24 hours to go.

Stakeholders and technocrats in manufacturing industry are set to address the nation in this programme on the effects of COVID-19.

Thus as part of its effort to help revive the Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) which ordinarily ought to be engine of industrial growth and development but
is struggling to survive amidst harsh economic environment coupled with invasion of coronavirus pandemic, CICAN has announced its readiness , a to host it’s 2020 edition of its annual workshop in Lagos.

The workshop theme is ” Effects of COVID-19 on the real Sector/ SMEs Financing on December 12, 2020.

This fact is contained in CICAN’s media statement signed by the event’ s Organising Chairman Johnmark UKoko and the Secretary Mrs Ebere Nworji and made available to the media recently in Lagos.

The statement said among the important personalities expected to grace the event include the Hon Minister Of Industry, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, the Managing Director / CEO of Nigeria Investment Council Olusegun Awolowo, the President of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria ( MAN), Engr Munsur Ahmed and others Captains of Industry.

According to the statement the Director General of National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture ( NACCIMA) Ambassador Ayoola Olukanni the President of National Association of Small and Enterprises (NASME), Prince Degun Agbode and other captains of industry will speak in the event.

In addition, the Managing Director of Bank of Industry ( BoI), Viluton Energy Limited CEO, Ugonwa Okoli and other Captains at Industry are also expected in the one-day programme.

Lamenting the state of SMEs, the workshop committee noted that despite the fact SMEs role in being the engine of growth of Nigeria’ s economy employing many millions of the youths, the authorities have not done much to tackle the various challenges confronting them.

The committee noted that the forum will enable the media professionals reporting the sector opportunity to meet the Captains of industry and brainstorm to tackle the challenges facing the sector.

The statement concluded that the Banks’ CEOs present will be given opportunity to tell their stories on their financing efforts so far and what the will do in the year 2021.

The CICAN’ s statement said the media will do all within their power to support the SMEs sector.

CICAN was established about three decades ago by NACCIMA to adequately report the real sector of Nigeria’s economy.