GoldTracks signs MoU with Rome Business School on SME entrepreneurship

The Rome Business School (RBS), Nigeria, and Goldtracks Business Palace Limited, Lagos, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Small Medium Enterprise (SME) on Entrepreneurship Development Program.

At the signing ceremony which took place at the School’s Yaba campus, Humphrey Akanazu, country manager, director/CEO, of the Italian global managerial training and research institute with its headquarters based in Rome, said that as a result of the MoU, more Nigerians would be positively engaged, get jobs, venture into their own businesses, gain innovative ideas and gain expanded entrepreneurial expertise.

“RBS Nigeria operates as an extended campus for RBS in Italy. It is an international managerial training and research institute with the aim of providing managerial training courses for entrepreneurs, managers, and professional, multinationals, companies, organisations, embassies and governments of 5 continents with Headquarters at Via degli Scialoja 18, 00196 Rome, Italy”, he said.

According to him, RBS Nigeria designed the contents of the training with special attention to Finance Management, Business Plan, Marketing, Business Registration and Taxation Laws, and other managerial courses for the enhancement of the participants’ understanding of entrepreneurship.

He explained that Goldtracks, a SME business development service providers to Bank of Industry, would expose the participants to various SME skills acquisition module on various opportunities available in the Nigerian economy such as: Ofada rice production and packaging; smoked fish production, nylon production; plantain and potato chip production; cassavaflour/garri packaging, laundry soap production, toilet cleanser production; palm kernel oil production and packaging; fruit Juice production and packaging; greenhouse production; broilers chicken productions; eggs production and additionally render free business advisory service to the participants.

Adewole Abimbola, managing director/CEO, Goldtracks Business Palace Limited, co-signatory, said Goldtracks is partnering with various institutions such as Small Medium Enterprises Development of Nigeria (SMEDAN) in providing, consulting and partnering with public and private institute on the establishment and management of small scale industries on the principle of Public Private Partnership (PPP).

NATHANIEL AKHIGBE