ENTREPRENEURSHIP

  Meta, today announced the launch of the ‘Good Ideas Deserve To Be Found' campaign to spotlight the inspiring stories of the people behind the businesses who are using Meta technologies to achieve a social purpose and do impactful things across several industries. Through this campaign, Meta aims to fuel...

Managing Director/Regional Executive, Ecobank Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Akinwuntan has said the bank will continue to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), take banking to every Nigerian through its agency banking network. The bank’s digital services will also support industries that focus on exports such as agriculture and manufacturing in 2022....

  To tackle the problem of growing youth unemployment in Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Thursday formally launched the Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES) in Abuja. The apex bank also presented cheques of N5 million each to six pioneer beneficiaries of the scheme to help boost their...

  Access Bank Plc has partnered SME.NG, the Bank of Industry (BOI), LAPO Microfinance Bank, Chapel Hill Denham and the Impact Investment Foundation Nigeria to launch the Ebi Marketplace.This is contained in a statement by Access Bank made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos....

No fewer than 300 small scale entrepreneurs have benefited from vocational training, while 15 cars, 35 laptops and over 165 vocational equipment were distributed by the lawmaker representing Oluyole Federal Constituency, Hon. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe on Sunday, November 21, 2021 in Ibadan. According to a press statement by Olamilekan Olusada, her...

Google has announced the 34 funding recipients of the Google.org Impact Challenge for Women and Girls to strengthen the well-being of communities recovering from COVID-19. The President, Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller, in a statement in Lagos on Monday said that women were nearly twice as likely to lose their jobs globally during COVID-19...

Nigerian lender, Unity Bank Plc, has handed out a total of N10 million in prize money as business grants to 30 NYSC members in the latest edition of its flagship Youth entrepreneurship and empowerment initiative, Corpreneurship Challenge held across ten states recently. The competition, already in its 7th edition, produced...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has approved over 600 million dollars investment programme in Digital and Creative Enterprise (iDICE) to support young tech and creative entrepreneurs. Buhari, while declaring open three-day National Youth Conference on Monday in Abuja, said iDICE was supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB). The theme of...

By 2050, Africa will have a youth population of over 800 million, with an additional 400 million jobs set to be needed by 2035 for youth across the continent. With agriculture already accounting for an estimated 35 per cent of employment in Nigeria, the sector is ripe for innovation and...

    Pursuant to the CBN Act 2007 and as part of its policy measures to address rising youth unemployment and underemployment in the country, the Central Bank (CBN) has developed the Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES), in partnership with Nigerian polytechnics and universities to harness the potential of graduate...