Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has asserted that the Presidential
Enabling Business Council, PEBEC, of the Federal Government, has created
an enabling environment for small and medium scale business in the
country.
Vice President, Osinbajo, who spoke in Jos, Plateau State, on Thursday said PEBEC was
currently being implemented by the relevant agencies so as to create a
better environment for micro, small and medium enterprises, MSME.
Osinbajo was quoted in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on
Media and Publicity as saying the reforms were centred on “issues of
new business registration, access to loans, certification of products,
issuance of visas and import inspection were all being addressed under a
new reform regime anchored by the PEBEC secretariat.
“We tried to look at the various areas that make it particularly
difficult to do business in Nigeria, for instance, for those who want to
register companies it used to take a long time but now we have improved
on that considerably.
“It is now possible for you to do a lot of business registration
online. As a matter of fact by next month the portal facility of the
Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) would be completely online.
“We are using a private sector cyber resource called Main One which
is providing all of the services for the CAC portal. So it can become
much easier for us to use, I am saying that the Corporate Affairs
Commission will now be online all the time.”
The Vice President disclosed that the Federal Government was working
towards ensuring that those who come into Nigeria to do business do not
experience hitches.
He said, “We are making it easier for them to obtain visas on arrival.
“On import inspections, before now you had several documents to fill
but we have reduced the number of documents by half so that you are not
filling hundreds of documents.”