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		<title>Keystone Bank Hosts SME Business Clinic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Temitope Nlewemchi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 13:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#160; Keystone Bank has reinforced its commitment to supporting small and medium-sized enterprises across Nigeria by organizing a nationwide SME Business Clinic, an initiative aimed at equipping entrepreneurs with the skills, knowledge, and practical tools they need to grow and sustain their businesses. The Business Clinic, which took place in June, covered ten major cities [...]</p>
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		<title>Access Bank Commits to Strengthening SME Partnerships, Deepening Tech Investments</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Temitope Nlewemchi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Access Bank Plc has reiterated its commitment to fostering stronger partnerships with Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and intensifying its investments in technology to drive innovation and sustainable growth across Nigeria’s business landscape. The bank made this known during a recent stakeholder engagement session in Lagos, where top executives highlighted the institution’s renewed strategy to [...]</p>
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		<title>Strategies for maintaining SME profitability amid inflation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Temitope Nlewemchi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Inflation poses a major challenge to businesses globally, hitting small businesses harder due to thinner margins and less flexibility to absorb cost increases, JOSEPHINE OGUNDEJI writes Each year, numerous small and medium-sized enterprises introduce new product solutions to the market, especially in developing economies like Nigeria. This economic phenomenon, characterised by rising prices and decreased [...]</p>
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		<title>Imo economic adviser joins European DIGITAL SME Alliance committee</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Temitope Nlewemchi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 22:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Chief Economic Adviser to the Imo State Government, Professor of Sustainable Finance at the European University Institute, Italy, Professor Kenneth Amaeshi, has joined the Scientific Committee of the European DIGITAL SME Alliance. A statement indicated that the European DIGITAL SME Alliance is the largest network of ICT small and medium enterprises in Europe, representing [...]</p>
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		<title>Address multiple taxes, SME operators tell Tinubu</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Temitope Nlewemchi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Some business owners have called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to address the issue of multiple taxation challenges facing Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in the country. According to a statement made available to our correspondent on Wednesday, the call was made at the 11th edition of Inspiring Change Conference 2024 with the theme ‘Enormous [...]</p>
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		<title>Flutterwave unveils new e-Commerce service to scale SME growth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Temitope Nlewemchi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payment technology company, has unveiled the launch of its new e-commerce service; Flutterwave Market – an extension of its Flutterwave Store service – that will bring together a collection of merchant stores in one place. Flutterwave Market brings e-commerce closer to the merchants and customers of a business. The new Flutterwave Market [...]</p>
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		<title>Request for Expressions of Interest: Design and Implementation of Technical Assistance Program for Capacity Building at NEXIM and SME Beneficiary Projects of #Loan Facility</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[apofeed]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 02:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>ABUJA, Nigeria, July 14, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ &#8212; The Nigerian Export-Import Bank [NEXIM] (http://neximbank.com.ng) has executed a Master Line of Credit [LOC] Agreement with the African Development Bank [AfDB] for the benefit of the Nigerian Real Sector, especially the SMEs. A Technical Assistance [TA] Program is an integral part of the LOC with the [...]</p>
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		<title>Storage Made Easy Brings Private Enterprise File Share and Sync for Amazon S3 to AWS GovCloud</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan William]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2014 07:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Storage Made Easy Brings Private Enterprise File Share and Sync for Amazon S3 to AWS GovCloud With the Storage Made Easy EFSS Cloud control platform now available for AWS GovCloud (US) Simple Storage users SME facilitates a full enterprise file share and sync type service with Amazon S3 Storage. London, United Kingdom, June 07, 2014 [...]</p>
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		<title>VConnect, Stanbic IBTC form Partnership to serve SME</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adewale A.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Nigeria’s largest local search engine, VConnect has announced a strategic partnership with Stanbic IBTC, a leading banking conglomerate in Africa and provider of integrated financial services, to enable SME customers of both companies gain online presence and have access to financial aid which would help these SMEs increase reach and profit In most countries Small [...]</p>
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		<title>At least 23 dead in north Yemen clashes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ade Adewale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Two days of clashes between Shiite rebels and Sunni tribesmen fighting alongside hardline Salafists in northern Yemen have left at least 23 people dead, sources said on Sunday. Fighting has centred for months on a Salafist mosque and Koranic school&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Obama, on Hawaii vacation, golfs with New Zealand PM</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ade Adewale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2014 10:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>US President Barack Obama played golf with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key in Hawaii, in a rare vacation encounter with a foreign official. The statesmen hit the green at a US Marine Corps base on the northeastern coast of the island of Oahu. Obama&#8230;</p>
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		<title>How Small Businesses Can Make a Big Splash Without Getting Wet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewsUSA]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>(NewsUSA) &#8211; It&#8217;s usually better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond, or so the saying goes. Many of today&#8217;s small and medium-sized companies are trying to figure out how to make a big splash when launching or renovating their presence on the web.How crowded [...]</p>
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