Anambra partners PEBEC to boost ease of doing business

The Anambra State government has expressed its readiness to partner with the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council to make the state a destination hub and actualise its “Vision 2070” agenda.

The Secretary to the State Government, Chiamaka Nnake, disclosed this during a one-day ‘Nationwide Town hall and State Engagement Tour’ meeting held at the International Convention Centre, Awka, on Wednesday.

Nnake said the partnership with PEBEC is aimed at driving reforms that will simplify business operations in Anambra State and the South-East region in general.

According to her, the programme organised by PEBEC, fully aligned with the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo’s vision of making Anambra a digital and destination hub and also to improve the state’s business climate as well as fostering transparency between businesses and regulators.

She said, “This programme is a repeat of what we have done in 2025 and we are fully prepared to key into it. Our major focus is to actualise the state governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo’s Vision 2070 agenda for the state.

“We are very much intentional about the PEBEC initiative. Our goal is to create an enabling environment that attracts investment and drives sustainable economic growth through strategic partnerships.

“Therefore, we are calling on other relevant stakeholders, particularly, investors in Anambra State to also key into the PEBEC programme to grow and develop their investment.”

In her welcome speech, the Director General of PEBEC, Princess Zahrah Audu, said the importance of the nationwide tour to Anambra and other parts of the federation was to strengthen business relationships with prospective states in fostering a more conducive business environment for investors.

Audu said, “Our goal is to create an enabling environment that attracts investment and drives sustainable economic growth across Nigeria by engaging directly with stakeholders in every state and also to identify challenges on the ground and collaboratively develop solutions that make doing business easier for every Nigerian.

“This ambitious programme aims to drive reforms that will simplify business operations across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory respectively.

“President Bola Tinubu has consistently emphasised that the Nigeria economic will not longer be determined in Abuja, it will now be determined in states, local government areas and cluster industrial cities across the country, hence the town hall meeting to brainstorm and develop a synergy with investors and other relevant stakeholder on how to actualise the President’s vision for the country.

“I commend the President whose administration is implementing a noble and ambitious economic reforms agenda in Nigeria history.”

The DG also commended the Anambra State Government for providing a conducive almophere during the engagement.

In his remarks, the State Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Chukwukadibia Okoye, said the PEBEC programme will add an umpire business environment in Anambra State.

Okoye added that it will improve the ease of doing business, create access to investors, enhance business climate, reduce bottleneck in Anambra business environment, boost business confidence, improve investment promotion and improve investment infrastructure.

“All of this is to reinstitutionalise the state economic reforms and to ensure that Anambra emerges the destination hub of Nigeria by 2070 as mapped out by the ‘solution governor’, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo,” the commissioner added.

Participants, in their separate remarks, described the meeting as productive. The event also featured panel discussions.