The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Bank, Mr. Ifie Sekibo, has called on financial institutions and the three tiers of government to support agriculture as well as small and medium scale businesses to fast-track the nation’s quest to move from poverty to prosperity.
Sekibo, also said evidence had shown that countries that support micro, Small and Medium enterprises, (MSME’s) are successful in reducing poverty.
Speaking on the sidelines of the just concluded 24th Nigerian Economic Summit which was co-sponsored by Heritage Bank and titled: “Poverty to Prosperity: Making Governance and Institutions work,” Sekibo said more needed to be done by the government and financial institutions in the areas of entrepreneurship because it is an agent of development.
According to him, “We in Heritage Bank have been…
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