PEBEC/SABER Holds Nationwide Townhall Meeting and Technical Section In Niger State
By Ndanusa Abdullahi
Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council in Collaboration With State Action for Business Enabling Reforms Holds Technical Statewide Town-Hall Meeting in Minna, the Niger State Capital.
The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council PEBEC, under the Office of the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, together with the State Action for Business Enabling Reform of the Ministry of Finance, held a statewide technical session and town hall meeting geared towards fine tuning the subnational government templete for the disbursement link result DLR and removal of bottleneck in doing business in the county and in the States.
The program which was held at Guddel Hotel in Minna, on the 3rd of July 2025, dissected the level of implementation, challenges that subnational is faced with in wooing investors and start ups businesses in the State.
The technical session propounded the need for States to put all mechanism in place for ease of doing business and tackle the bureaucratic regulations that prevent start ups.
Some of of the panellists in the town hal meeting, the Executive Secretary of the State’s Investment Promotion Council, Amina Sanusi, stated that Niger State had excelled in all structure of ease of doing business, putting up modalities for wooing and registering starts up and entrepreneurs in the State.
Niger State Commissioner of Industry, Trade, Investment and Private Sector Development, Aminu Suleiman Takuma, said the State Government is working hard to bring in investors into the State, saying the agricultural transformation of the Farmer Governor has accrued millions of US dollar investment in agro processing zones, agro equipment, logistic, and food mopped up and packaging.
Furthermore, Niger State Action for Business Enabling Reform SABER, Sanisu Aliyu, explained that PEBEC, is a step down of SABER in all the subnational government of Nigeria, noting that the State’s action for business enabling reform has domesticated all the performance for results performance template in the State.
Meanwhile, the PEBEC Director General, noted that subnational government will have to put the necessary mechanism in place to achieve the goal and objectives of ease of doing business in there various states, stating that the National template has highlighted priority indicators for making start ups and entrepreneurs to have an efficient and transparent licensing, registration and investment information.
It should be noted that, the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council PEBEC, is domicile in the office of the Vice President of Nigeria, saddles with the responsibility of making Nigeria business environment more friendly, competitive, rewarding and of high value to investment and investors, as domesticated by State Action for Business Enabling Reform SABER, making Niger State investment and investors heaven.
