Funding Conference rewards Nigerian entrepreneurs in Abuja
- As the Nigerian economy goes through a challenging time, some Nigerians are keen on addressing some of the issues bedevilling the country
- An initiative, Funding Conference, is filling the gap by making known the funding opportunities available to Nigerians
- The platform is also creating a structure to help promising Nigerians get funding in their various businesses
As the Nigerian economy goes through a challenging time, some Nigerians are keen on addressing some of the issues bedevilling the country especially in the area of the economy.
The Funding Conference 2020, an initiative aimed at strategic funding for enterprise development, poverty alleviation and nation-building was held in Abuja on Friday, February 28.
The conference is a platform set to educate participants for a mind shift, make known the funding opportunities available to Nigerians as well as to create a structure to help promising Nigerians get funding.
At the event, credible brands and facilitators assisted entrepreneurs on how to get funding, guided them through investment techniques, taught them how to manage funds and gave them loans to manage their businesses.
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Organisers of the event say they have up to N5million in grants targeted at skilled Nigerians and entrepreneurs.
Prince Ekemini Udo, convener of the initiative told journalists on the sideline of the event that he is passionate about Nigeria can build a more skilful and powerful economy.
“In trying to do that we trust that the people build the nation and if we must build the nation we must build the people.
“So if we want to lift Nigeria and not give the other parts of the world a basis to address Nigeria as the headquarters of poverty, then we have to build the people of Nigeria to become wealthy, and when they are wealthy they can also contribute to the development of our nation,” he said.
He continued: “The development of a nation is not totally dependent on the government, it is our collective responsibility, but a people cannot give what they do not have.
“It takes people who are doing well and have developed themselves to join the government to develop the economy. So that is why we are driving an initiative called Skill Power Drive which is to help raise a skilful and more powerful economy by raising people who are more skilful and powerful.
“We will be doing this project called skill power which is going to train people, help them get wealth creation skills, help them get funding and also help to mentor them so that when this funding gets to them they can manage it properly.
“There is a lot we are juggling and that's why we had to launch another project called 'The Funding Conference' which as the name implies is to have a platform where skilful and passionate Nigerians can be assisted and funded to drive their dreams because there is a bridge between your dreams and reality and that bridge is funding.
“No matter how beautiful your dreams and ideas are, without funding they cannot become reality. So that's why we had the Funding Conference as a way of unveiling this plan.
“We are also using this opportunity to call on people who believe that Nigeria can be better, and Nigerians have ideas that can be supported to grow, to also reach out and partner with us at Skill Power Academy and The Funding Conference.”
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Meanwhile, the federal government has admitted that Nigeria’s economy has “gone down.”
This was stated by the minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige on Tuesday, February 18 when he hosted the United States of America Ambassador, Mary Beth Leonard.
Ngige also spoke on the economic downturn, saying Nigeria made a mistake depending on a single revenue source for decades.
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