{"id":153784,"date":"2025-03-03T22:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T21:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerian-government-to-reward-outstanding-msme-with-n220m-prizes-announces-registration-date"},"modified":"2025-03-10T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T23:48:18","slug":"nigerian-government-to-reward-outstanding-msme-with-n220m-prizes-announces-registration-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-to-reward-outstanding-msme-with-n220m-prizes-announces-registration-date","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian government to reward outstanding MSME with N220m prizes, announces registration date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigerian government has announced plans to reward the overall best-performing micro, small, and medium enterprises, MSMEs, in the country with prizes worth over N220 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Job Creation and MSMEs, Temitola Adekunle-Johnson, disclosed this on Monday during a press briefing to launch the 7th National MSMEs Award.<\/p>\n<p>Adekunle-Johnson announced that the registration portal will be open for all Nigerian businesses from Friday, 7th March 2025, to 7th April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, President Bola Tinubu\u2019s government is committed to improving the lives of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>He added that businesses owned by persons with disabilities will be recognised for their contributions to Nigeria\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe portal will be open from Friday, 7th March 2025, to 7th April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have taken into account businesses run by people living with disabilities, so a PWDs category will be included. They will have the opportunity to compete for various prizes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, SMEs will win stores, shops, cars, and cash prizes. The overall winner will go home with a house, store, car, and cash prize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to transform the lives of some of these MSMEs. We want someone to say, \u2018It was under Tinubu\u2019s government that I got my own shop, house, or car.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s MSME winners will receive a house, shop, car, and N20 million in cash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe overall winner will receive prizes worth over N220 million,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the recognition will take place alongside other financial interventions by the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that Nigerian MSMEs will be recognised based on their business strengths across ten broad categories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The screening committee will include representatives from the National Information Technology Development Agency, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, the Bank of Industry, and other key government agencies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigerian government has announced plans to reward the overall best-performing micro, small, and medium enterprises, MSMEs, in the country with prizes worth over N220 million. The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Job Creation and MSMEs, Temitola Adekunle-Johnson, disclosed this on Monday during a press briefing to launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":153783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[254,822,945],"class_list":["post-153784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian-government","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian government to reward outstanding MSME with N220m prizes, announces registration date - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta 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