Entrepreneurship

The Bill on the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Trust Fund , if passed into law, will primarily  provide Start-up Capital for young Entrepreneurs on the scheme, the NYSC Boss has said. It will also support and place Corps Members…

A former National Chairmanship Aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who is also the Turaki of Ilorin, Mallam Saliu Mustapha, has disbursed 200 million naira to 600 people in Ilorin, Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, during his…

No fewer than six hundred youths of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have been empowered with practical skills in greenhouse farming technology, targeted at propelling them to gainfully venture into the…

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has empowered three National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members serving with the organization with the cheques of Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500,000) each. The cheques were…

As part of efforts to address rising youth unemployment in Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released Guidelines for the implementation of Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES).…

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has commenced two new forms of business registrations pursuant to the new Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 (CAMA, 2020). The development followed the successful deployment of the…

The new President of the Nigerian Association of Women Entrepreneurs (NAWE), Vera Ndanusa, has called on the government to create a monitoring team to make sure economic policies bear direct impact on women entrepreneurs. …

Nigerian women have been urged to effectively utilize their potentials for the country's economic growth. The newly inaugurated President, Nigerian Association of Women Entrepreneurs (NAWE), Mrs. Vera Ndanusa, made the call at the…

Eleven small businesses won prizes at the Fourth Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Award and Dinner held on Sunday at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.   In addition to cash prizes, six of the winners…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has posited that entrepreneurship is critical to Africa’s transformation. It said this in its June 2021 African Development Bank White Paper titled “Entrepreneurship and Free Trade: Africa’s…