National Pension Commission (PenCom) will be at the 2019 Abuja International Trade Fair.

National Pension Commission (PenCom) has disclosed that it will be at the 2019 Abuja International Trade Fair.

The 2019 Abuja International Trade Fair begins today, Saturday 21 September and will end on Sunday 29 September 2019. This is the 13th edition of the Trade Fair, and it is expected to play host to 45 foreign companies that will be exhibiting and promoting their goods and services.

The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ACCI, had in a press conference, said the presence of the companies would strengthen businesses, trade and investment opportunities in Nigeria. 

The fair will feature a roundtable discussion on “Remodeling SMEs Financing: Options and Solutions’’. Describing Nigeria as an 80% Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs, based country, Shoyele said it was on this background that the chamber decided to have a 100% focus on SMEs.

Basically our mandate is to promote their businesses and handhold them till they get to the upper level. There will be a roundtable which the CBN, Bank of Industry and others that are SMEs based will participate to form policies and strategies to promote the SMEs.