PEBEC to stage play for 4000 Nigerians October 1st 

By Mashe Umaru Gwamna

The Special Advisor to the President on Ease of Doing Business, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole,said the secretariat of the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has revealed plans to stage a show on the ease of doing business in the country for 4000 Nigerians between October 1st and 2nd in Abuja.

Oduwole, made the disclosure Friday during a press conference in Abuja, said the play; “The Future is here”, is premiered for PEBEC at 5 anniversary year, is a gamut of business reforms designed to create awareness, further communicate and engage PEBEC’s target audience in celebration of Nigeria’s Independence Day.

She disclosed that the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Public and Civil servants are some of the targeted audience for the show, noted that the show will be held four times for the two days.

She said: “The PEBEC Secretariat is scheduled to host the PEBEC Play titled “The Future is here” between October 1st and 2nd in Abuja. The play, which premiered at our PEBEC at the 5th anniversary, will be used to spread the word to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Public and Civil servants. The PEBEC Play is a gamut of business reforms designed to create awareness, further communicate and engage our target audience in celebration of Nigeria’s Independence Day.

‘The Future Is Here’ focuses on the narrative of a future that we can collaboratively create; a future riding on government’s reforms; and the future of our dream! This future that we seek! The future where the government’s numerous reforms smile at everyone; a future with no artificial barricade; a future where everyone can do business with ease.

“ For the play, we are inviting the public and civil servants free of charge that worked on the reforms that PEBEC had delivered over the last six years. We’re also inviting the MSMEs who everyday do their hustle with courage and determination, and face whatever challenges with courage. So we’re just having this event to celebrate our two customers, the public servants that we work with, to make the reforms and the private sector that we’re delivering from. So those are the people that we talk to all the time as public’’.

‘We are targeting 4000 Nigerians, we have four shows, two on the first day and another two on the second day. And the reason we’re doing this is that we feel it’s important to celebrate the men and women who have delivered the reforms that we’ve been able to accomplish so far, in the ease of doing business intervention.

Speaking on further, Oduwole, who is also the Secretary to the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), said by the second of October, the second report on the Ease of Doing Business would be released, adding that the PEBEC’s award would be held on the 1st of December.

“My mid October, second week of October, the second edition of our Ease of Doing Business report will be released. Then when we release the report, we are going to have a retreat to states to make state action plans. We’ll have our favorite awards first of December, that is the PEBEC award. So all the states that did well in the second report, we’ll celebrate those dates in December during the award event’’.