Edo State is mobilising young entrepreneurs, small business owners and unemployed youths to access the Tony Elumelu foundation’s $5,000 grant and other opportunities, it was learnt.
It has organised a one-day workshop for young entrepreneurs and start-ups to enable them access available grants and funding to boost their businesses.
Commissioner for Wealth Creation, Employment and Cooperatives, Emmanuel Usoh, said it was the government’s commitment to ensure that small businesses and start-up strive by creating a powerful local economy to positively affect the generality of our people.
Usoh, who spoke at a press briefing, said it was a way of enhancing the growth of the state’s local economy,
He said: “The state government discovered that there are so many available sources of empowerment for young business people from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Bank of Industry (BoI), and other several intervention agencies.
“There is a $5,000 grant available through the Tony Elumelu Foundation for young entrepreneurs and there are many young persons in the state who have benefited from the foundation so, we are engaging them to come and teach our young entrepreneurs on how they could access these funds because we also discovered that some of them are not aware of the procedure to access these available grants, hence the decision to organise this workshop.”
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