{"id":51334,"date":"2021-08-16T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=51334"},"modified":"2021-08-16T18:50:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:50:15","slug":"unity-bank-corpreneurship-challenge-produces-30-more-winners-in-6th-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/unity-bank-corpreneurship-challenge-produces-30-more-winners-in-6th-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Unity Bank Corpreneurship Challenge Produces 30 More Winners In 6th Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

A total of thirty members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, have won cash prizes and business grants totalling N10 million in the 6th<\/sup>\u00a0edition of the expanded Unity Bank flagship business plan competition known as Corpreneurship Challenge.<\/p>\n

Unity Bank is currently in 10 states of the federation where three winners each emerged from the Batch B Orientation course in\u00a0\u00a0the Corpreneuship competition held last week.<\/p>\n

The states that the winners emerged included Lagos, Ogun, Benin, Abuja, Akwa Ibom, Kano, Sokoto, Enugu, Osun and Kwara.<\/p>\n

As in the previous editions, the cash prizes included a\u00a0N<\/s>200, 000 business grant for third place winners;\u00a0N<\/s>300, 000 business grant for the second place and a star prize of\u00a0N<\/s>500, 000 for the winners.<\/p>\n

Some of the winners included Yahaya Muhammad, Alade Ayinde and Omolola Kehinde in Kano NYSC camp, while Chiamaka Nweke, Nduke Oduobuk and Victoria Adesope emerged as the winners in the Enugu State camp.<\/p>\n

In Lagos, Aliu Haira Abimbola, Uzoechi Ihuoma Augustus and Adesanolu Lukmon Abiodun emerged winners to claim the cash prizes.<\/p>\n

One of the winners in Abuja, Ebingha Ogbe John appreciated Unity Bank for the opportunity, which she said, has helped her to showcase her business to the world.\u00a0\u201cI thank Unity Bank for making my project, Mama\u2019s Ally Crashfish to come alive in this Abuja,\u201d She said.<\/p>\n

The initiative continues to attract increasing interests among the corps members, as over 2000 applications were received but only 100 were shortlisted for the pitching sessions from where the thirty winners emerged.<\/p>\n

The contestants\u2019 business plans which ranged from software solutions, fashion, fish production, poultry farming, bee farming, retail chains, piggery to beverages were assessed on originality, marketability, future employability potential of the product and knowledge of the business.<\/p>\n

Recall that Unity Bank started the Entrepreneurial Development Initiative in 2019, to specifically target corps members, as part of efforts to contribute to job creation in Nigeria. It continues to gain traction, growing bigger and better in grooming corps members having successfully ran several editions of the scheme in partnership with the NYSC Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development, SAED.<\/p>

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The Bank has invested overN80 million in the initiative, which has now produced 58 winners since it was launched.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the finale in FCT NYSC camp, the Divisional Head, Retail, SME Banking and E-Business Directorate, Unity Bank Plc, Mr. Olufunwa Akinmade, said the competition has proved to be a great tool for empowering fresh graduates in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe corpreneurship challenge is a creative entrepreneurial development initiative by Unity Bank in conjunction with the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC. It is aimed at driving job creation through entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith rising youth unemployment in the country, it is just common sense to consider the entrepreneurship alternative\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the corps members join the labour market after their youth service, not every one of them will get the opportunity for a paid employment. But with what Unity Bank is doing, many of them will get the support they need to start a small business and even become employers of labour\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe encourage the corps members to take seriously the opportunity that the Unity Bank Corpreneurship has provided. And to those that have emerged the winners today, we ask them to utilise their grants judiciously. Unity Bank remains committed to empowering the youth through initiatives such as this, as we know that the bedrock of the economy is entrepreneurship.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Zonal Head, North West, Unity Bank Plc, Mr. Mustapha Idris Baba, implored the winners to judiciously utilise the funds to support the business venture that got them the grant.<\/p>\n

This edition follows the expanded Corpreneurship Challenge which started in the 5th<\/sup>\u00a0edition in June this year. The programme looks set to expand nationwide, empowering corps members to explore entrepreneurship alternatives in the face of rising youth unemployment in the country. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo Caption: <\/span>From left:<\/b>\u00a0Mr. Kabir Mashi, Regional Manager, North West, Unity Bank Plc, Omolola Kehinde, 2nd runner up, Aisha Tata Mohammed, Kano State NYSC Coordinator, Yahaya Muhammad, the overall winner, Mr. Mustapha Idris Baba, Zonal Head, North West, Unity Bank Plc and Alade Ayinde, the first runner up in the 6th edition of the NYSC Corpreneurship Challenge held in Kano last week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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