 And in a quest to create more jobs to the Nigerians through entrepreneurship programs and to have a stable economy in Nigeria, the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDN, has restated its commitment in line with the agenda of the present administration of President Mohammad Abwari to lift in 100 million Nigerians out of poverty to prosperity with a booming industry in the country. Speaking at a two days capacity building of the newly recruited staff of SMEDN at the Northwest Zonal Office in Kaduna, the Director General of SMEDN, Dr. Diko Marurada, says the activities are aimed at capacity building of staff both internally and newly employed to impact them with the knowledge of entrepreneurship and equip them with skills on how to train MSMEs to impact positively on Nigerian lives. Diko says the agency has impacted positively to significant number of MSMEs in the country on the different programs that includes the conditional grant scheme, which over 10,000 Nigerians benefited from it last year, and national business skills development initiatives, which 3,000 people benefited, direct and indirect job program, 3,000 jobs were also created. Basically, on this training, we are going to take them through all the entrepreneurship training modules so that they can learn how to train MSMEs, how to handhold them, how to give them the basic things they needed by monitoring them, counseling them, guiding them. And then without having those basic skills, you cannot call yourself a SMEDN staff. Because so on that basis, we are bringing them together on each geopolitical zone and in Abuja so that we can build their capacity to teach them all these entrepreneurship modules. Can impact knowledge to a larger number of more than 40 million without having the capacity. And that is what the DGC, the need to employ new staff, vibrant new staff, and even to put them through this. This is the first of its kind. We've never had any time that new employed staff would be employed and they were put through the modules, which is the working equipment. No staff of the agency will go without touching these modules. So we are putting them through to know what it is, how to do it, and where to even do the modeling. I call this for them to be dedicated to their duty, let them love their job, let them be up and doing, let them have mastery of the subject matter in which they are teaching the MSMEs. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.