Wema Bank Plc in collaboration with Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (PHCCIMA) has held a SMEs Business School in Port Harcourt to educate entrepreneurs on how to grow their businesses.
Speaking at the event, Executive Director of Wema Bank, South South/South East region, Emeka Obiagwu while welcoming participants said the event was part of it’s Corporate Social Responsibility and a way of giving back to the society.
He congratulated the participants which included distinguished members of PHCCIMA, saying that they were carefully selected as business owners in the region to broaden their business horizon.
The Wema Bank ED, also commended PHCCIMA for partnering with the bank for the success of the event.
In an interview with journalists at the sideline of the event, President of the Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (PHCCIMA) Sir Mike Elechi, expressed satisfaction with the quality of resource persons and the entire context of the programme.
He described the event as a business clinic for entrepreneurs and charged participants to make good use of the opportunity which is aimed at bringing in innovative ideas on how to grow their businesses.
The PHCCIMA President also thanked Wema Bank PLC for the choice of Port Harcourt for such training programme .
Elechi who also is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Vintage Farms and Products Ltd said the effect of the SMEs business school to Rivers State economy cannot be overemphasized, saying that the participants were all Chief Executive Officers of their various companies in Rivers State and its environs.
He said if participants make good use of what was thought at the school it will have good impact on the state’s economy.
In his lecture on corporative and competitive strategy , Deji Rarman, a Lagos base motivational speaker urged business owners to always plan with strategies especially when the resources are available, adding that they should flow along the strategies of reality so as not to run out of business.
