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Educating, Empowering & Elevating MSMEs in Nigeria and Africa

WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL ACADEMY FOR MSMES

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“Our small and medium sized enterprises are the lifeblood of our economy. We will empower these enterprises to reach new heights of success with good policies, access to finance, and capacity building initiatives"

His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFRPresident, Commander-In-Chief, Federal Republic of Nigeria 

Catalysts of Nigeria's Economic Growth

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When it comes to Nigeria's economic prosperity, the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment (FMITI), along with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) and its other agencies, are committed to putting the right structures and programmes in place to catalyze the growth of critical sectors in Nigeria with particular focus on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. There are over 41 million MSMEs across Nigeria (according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics and SMEDAN) and each month, more and more businesses are setup, largely without formal learning. Though considered as Nano or Micro, a lot of these businesses create employment at the grassroots level and have the potentials to do more. Add this to the fact that 60% of our population is less than 25 years old, we begin to understand that Nigeria’s economic boost and prosperity will come from businesses that currently exists but more importantly, businesses that would be run by our youth, using recent digital technologies. There is no better time for all of us to come together through public-private-partnerships to accelerate the growth of our Youth and our MSME sector. The SME Digital Academy is one of such structures, focused on MSME Education.

Quick Stats

We are very happy about our achievements and don't hide them

SMEDAN

The official owner of the SME Digital Academy,

41 Million

Estimated number of MSMEs in Nigeria 

60%

Nigeria's population that is less than 25 years old

1 million

Number of SMEs to be trained annually by SMEDAN

What we Offer - More than Learning

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1. Online Courses & Certificate

Learn from experts and experienced business owners directly on your device, from anywhere, at any time and get Certificate signed by DG-SMEDAN

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2. Digital Community 

Join the SME Digital Community and experience an ecosystem where you can connect with other SMEs, mentors, sponsors and more.

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3. The MarketPlace

Create your own profile on our marketplace and showcase your services to gain more sales and revenue, locally and internationally.

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4. Local Languages

Nano and Micro Businesses are not left out. We also offer our courses and programmes in major Nigerian Languages.

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5. Digital Boost & SME Support

Gain access to digital support including websites, mobile apps, google business tools, email marketing, social media, designs and more.

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6. Lifetime Access to Resources

Unlimited access to useful and relevant information about funding opportunities, new ideas, government grants, policies, local and global events and more.

Featured Course for the Month

Micro-Insurance for Small Businesses

Onyinye is a cook and owns a small restaurant in Onitsha. She is doing well. Ademola is a plumber and has a small shop in Ibadan. Aisha sells Ankara materials in a popular market in Kano. Mama Ochuko makes meatpie and delivers to schools. They all use these businesses to make money and support their families. They are doing well. However, there is always risk in business - theft, fire, flood, accidents, injuries, and so on. These businesses are too important to families and the community for them to just suffer when something bad happens. That is why we have designed this course to teach all businesses in Nigeria how to insure and cover their businesses so when something bad happens, you will be compensated and sometimes, get your business back to where it was before. Nigeria has something called MicroInsurance and that is what this course is all about. It is one of the popular courses on our Academy. It comes in English, Pidgin, Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa, 
Watch a small part of the course. 

Learning about insuring your business in multiple languages

English Version

Igbo Version

Yoruba Version

Hausa Version

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A few recent Partnerships

We thank all our partners that continue to support the growth of the MSME sector, through the Academy. More strategic partnerships will be announced soon, as we continue to build a large ecosystem for business success in Nigeria

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2023

The NDIC is partnering with the SME Digital Academy to offer courses to businesses on various topics with particular focus on growth, financial safety, digital inclusion and financial inclusion 

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2021 - Date

Special thanks to MTN for giving the SME Digital Academy its own Code that offers small business access to 2GB of Data for just N200.00 for 7days and not use their existing data. *460*600#

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2021 - Date

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) collaborates with Sapphital to offer high quality courses on Financial Inclusion to individuals and MSMEs across Nigeria.

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2021 - Date

NCC collaborates with the SME Digital Academy to offer 12 Courses to selected MSMEs across the country every quarter since 2021. These entrepreneurs and business owners learn and graduate. 

Useful Resources for Small Businesses

Get periodic insights into how to run and scale your business

Testimonials

John Akunna CEO.AKUA LTD

Course materials were good, the mentoring approach was good, and working with other people via the Internet was good. The instructor did a good job of communicating and making it a more intimate arrangement. A lot of online courses fail because of isolation. I learned a lot.

Abba Ishaq Yusuf 

​I am Abba Ishaq Yusuf.I am among the participant of  NCC_SMEDAN DIGITAL TRAINING, its indeed and privilege for me to articulate my glad and appreciation to this training given to us.I have no dialect to thank you but all i can say is, my the Almighty reward you and we are really appreciate and we become highly stimulus. Thank you.

 Abdulrahman Aliyu Abdullahi from Kano State

I offered about eleven courses in those courses, there are some that made outstanding impact in the way i do and percieve my business.The first one is the mind mapping, it helps to isolate the noise around you and give you the ability to focus your effort on the important important information, thereby making you more productive at the same time increasing the tendency of success in your business.