The Kaduna State Ministry of Business Innovation and Technology (MBIT), says it has registered about 17,000 businesses in the state.
Mrs Patient Fakai, the Commissioner of the MBIT, disclosed this on Thursday in Kaduna while speaking to newsmen after a sensitisation walk within the metropolis to enlighten owners on the need to register their businesses.
Fakai emphasised that as a state, the need for a comprehensive data bank of all businesses was critical.
She explained that the essence was to have data which could be used in assisting businesses on different programmes to make them financially inclusive in the state.
Fakai said that the MBIT has to an extent done well in registering businesses but needed to do more.
This, she said, informed the MBIT on the need to step out for sensitisation rather than seating in the office to wait for businesses to come and register.
“It is our duty to enlighten the businesses on the need and importance of registering their businesses with us. A lot of them might not know the benefit prior to this bold step,”she said.
The commissioner mentioned some of the benefits the businesses would derive to include networking, being financially included in many programmes rolled out at the federal level.
Fakai equally said that residents and visitors to Kaduna would be able to have a proper directory of businesses.
She called on the resident businesses in the state to register their businesses for a long term benefit.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the business enumeration exercise which is currently on is in collaboration with Osoft Intergrated Resources Limited. (NAN).
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