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AEA’s Financial Literacy & Inclusion Campaigns Excites Kuje Residents
It was a successful outing for the ongoing Abuja Enterprise Agency’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Awareness Campaign in Kuje Area Council on Wednesday as numerous residents visited the tents mounted by AEA in frantic search for solutions and answers that best suited their business needs.
The Sensitization Team also traversed the length and breadth of the Area Council during the period.
A Statement signed by AEA’s Team Lead, Corporate Communications, Mr. Emmanuel Tortiv said information bothering on Tax Education, Financial Planning, Managing Risks, Financial Fraud and Scams as well as Special Counselling Sessions were dished out by facilitators to a wide section of the public.
Mr. Tortiv quoted the Ag MD/CEO, Mr. Chudi Ugwuada-Ezirigwe as describing the attendance of the Sensitization by Kuje residents as successful. The MD called on Staff to redouble their efforts in reaching the thousands of business operators and residents of the Area Council who keep requesting for areas of knowledge to expand their businesses.
Represented by the Desk Officer in charge of the Programme at AEA, Mrs Chidinma Nduka, the MD informed Newsmen that Kuje was a huge embodiment of prospects for the success of business operators in the Area Council.
He further noted the positive reaction of residents of the Area Council to the initiative from the FCT Administration through the Agency.
He also noted that the Campaign will go a long way in driving their businesses towards sustainability.
He expressed satisfaction with the participation and enthusiasm exhibited by the residents of the Area Council.
He acknowledged that access to business advisory services and finance remains the focal point and most patronised of all the enquiries made by the public in all the Area Councils visited so far. He added that the inadequate or outright lack of information was another critical area people wanted to know in their enquiries.
Also speaking on the outcome of the Sensitization in Kuje, the Head, Partnerships and Strategy, Mal. Usman Isiaka Usman described the response by Kuje residents as satisfactory noting that the surge of business operators/SMEs was remarkable.
Mal. Usman said “we had a surge of people coming to understand how Financial Literacy can be used to turn businesses around. We have a lot of interested people that have even registered with the Agency because of the quality of orientation that we have given to them.”
In their separate comments, Adailo Yakubu and Nzeka Chukuma, both Fashion Designer and Furniture Maker in Kuje expressed their heartfelt gratitude to the FCT Minister, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike for providing infrastructures to their Councils as well as granting them access to knowledge-based activities like the Financial Literacy Programme.
“I will visit the AEA for more Financial Education because of what I got from the market today. I came here today to buy ordinary pepper and tomatoes, but I got more knowledge unexpectedly. I must visit them for more knowledge.” Reiterated 32 year old Adailo.
Also speaking, Mr.
Nzeka Chukwuma said until he recieved the Financial Literacy Campaigns from AEA, he had always assumed that most interventions from Government Agencies were a scam. The excited Fashion Dealer said “henceforth I will ensure I register my business and approach relevant government agencies to seek for the needed information on how to expand my business.”
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Nigerian Technical Aid Corps to Partner Federal Inland Revenue Service for Enhanced Service Delivery
Joel Ajayi
The Nigerian Technical Aid Corps (NTAC) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) have agreed to constitute an Ad Hoc joint Committee to work out modalities on how the both federal agencies will interface for a greater service delivery of their both mandates for the benefits of recipient countries of the Technical Aid Corps scheme.
This was the high point of a meeting held, Wednesday,in Abuja when the Director,Inter-Governmental Relations Department of the FIRS,Dr.Umaru Idris Ahmed led a delegation of the Service to a courtesy call on the Director General of NTAC,Rt.Hon.Yusuf Buba Yakub.
Speaking during the visit,Rt.Hon. Buba informed his guests that the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps was established in 1987 with a mandate to drive the Technical Aid Corps scheme as an instrument of soft power diplomacy for the promotion of the nation’s foreign policy goals in African, Caribbean and the Pacific nations.
He added that in the past 37 years of driving the mandate NTAC has deployed over 10,000 highly trained professionals in diverse fields of endeavour to 40 countries across the world and has showcased Nigeria as a friend to those countries in the spirit of the United Nations’ South-South Co-operation.
“Today,as we speak,the Scheme is not limited to just interventions in the Health and Education sectors,but also in Engineering,in the Judiciary and even Artisanship.
“For instance,today,the Chief Judge of The Gambia and many Legal Draftsmen are Nigerians.Nigerian Professors are also currently heading the prestigious University of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology in that country.There are so many cases like these across the world so that today going forward we are thinking,with the necessary amendments to our statues here,of attracting the needed foreign exchange from the services of some of these professionals we send out to share our abundant human resources with our sister countries of the ACP Region,”the DG informed.
Earlier speaking,the Director of the IGRD and leader of the Federal Inland Revenue Service delegation,Dr.Ahmed told their hosts that the delegation was at the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps to advance the building of new relationships with MDAs in line with the mandate of the newly established Inter-Governmental Relations Department of FIRS.
He also informed that the Department,which was established at the FIRS in March this year, had the sole mandate of fostering relationships between the Agency,the MDAs of Government and the private sector. The above he said was in order to further project the image of the Service in good light in relation to its role in tax reforms for national development in the Tinubu Administration.
Dr. Ahmed further informed that,being a member of both the African Tax Forum(ATAF) and the West African Tax Forum(WTAF),he would strive to liaise with those professional bodies to ascertain how NTAC could assist some ACP countries with the competencies of some Nigerian tax experts.
Among those present at the meeting on the side of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps were the Director of Administration at the Agency,Amb.Yakubu Abdullahi Ahmed;the Director of Programmes,Amb.Zakari Usman as well as the Deputy Director of Administration,Amb.Saidu D
Muhammed and Mr.Saidu Idris Yusuf,a Deputy Director in the Accounts Department.
Officers from the FIRS include the following:
Mrs.Shehu Ganiyah,Ashu A.S,Mr.Silas Onweydu as well as Mr.Okim Thomas.While others were Mr.Usman Ibrahim and Amina Abdullahi.
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