{"id":67001,"date":"2022-11-25T15:27:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=67001"},"modified":"2022-11-25T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T14:27:47","slug":"corpreneurship-challenge-unity-bank-splashes-n10m-grant-on-30-corps-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/corpreneurship-challenge-unity-bank-splashes-n10m-grant-on-30-corps-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpreneurship Challenge: Unity Bank Splashes N10M Grant On 30 Corps Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unity Bank Entrepreneurship Development Initiative – Corpreneurship Challenge, targeted at empowering fresh graduates and Corp Members on one-year compulsory national youth service has, in its ninth edition of the Corpreneurship Challenge held across 10 States recently, doled out N10 million grant to 30 winners.<\/p>\n

The winners emerged after a business pitch presentation held across\u00a010 States; namely,\u00a0Rivers, Delta, Sokoto, Edo, Abuja, Akwa-Ibom, Osun, Kano, Bayelsa, and Enugu, with each state producing three winners who took home cash grants of\u00a0N500,000, N300,000 and\u00a0N200,000.<\/p>\n

The winners of this ninth edition included Corp Members\u00a0focusing developing entreneurship in renewable energy, fashion, beauty, agro-processing, confectionaries, etc.<\/p>\n

Some of the winners at the Rivers State NYSC Orientation camp at Nonwa Gbam Tai included Muoneke Gift, whose business plan on renewable energy took home the grand prize of N500, 000; followed by Ilesanmi Olamide\u2019s business proposal on beauty services to claim the N300, 000-business grant for first runner up. Ekanem Moses Idoreyin’s confectionary business proposal took home the N200, 000 grant.<\/p>\n

The winners emerged after their business plans were assessed by a panel looking out for business ideas that demonstrate\u00a0originality, marketability, future employability potential of the product, and knowledge of the business.<\/p>\n

The Unity Bank Corpreneurship Challenge has gradually joined the league of some of the most impactful, youth-focused entrepreneurship development initiatives in Nigeria, empowering no fewer than 100 young entrepreneurs over the past three years.<\/p>\n

Recently, one of the beneficiaries in Sokoto, Beulah Yusuf, who emerged as second runner-up in one of the editions\u00a0successfully launched her recycling business with\u00a0the\u00a0grant received from the Bank. She\u00a0unveiled\u00a0her products\u00a0widely acclaimed for addressing\u00a0environmental pollution and waste management inefficiencies, underscoring the Bank\u2019s motivations to sustain the initiative.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the finale at Rivers State NYSC Orientation Camp recently, the Group Head, Retail, E-Business, and SME Banking, Unity Bank Plc, Mr. Olufunwa Akinmade, said the Bank was delighted with the impressive records the Corpreneurship Challenge has pulled so far.<\/p>

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\u201cWhen we launched the initiative in 2019, we set out to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs that will disrupt the job market by creating much-needed jobs across all sectors. Today, we have come a long way and the Corpreneurship Challenge has lived up to its billing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Represented by Regional Manager, Port Harcourt Region, Unity Bank Plc, Mr. Eto Ukpe, Akinmade reiterated the Bank\u2019s commitment to sustaining the initiative and mainstreaming the Corpreneurship Challenge as a reliable and impactful entrepreneurship and business empowerment and mentorship programme in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have today in the labour market is far from the ideal. However, it is not enough to keep complaining. We must make lemonade out of lemon. We believe that the Corpreneurship Challenge has proved to be one of the most creative approaches to tackling the intractable crisis we have in the job market in Nigeria.”<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to expand this programme to all 36 states and sustain it for as long as possible to achieve record impact. We continue to encourage the winners to continue to learn the rudimentary lessons necessary to build a successful business. We emphasize that the budding entrepreneurs who take part in this initiative constantly think about the challenges they will face and put the same energy they all have displayed in preparing for this contest in their businesses as they face their post-service year ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Corpreneurship Challenge, which has earned the Bank national recognition for its impact on youth empowerment and job creation, has continued to elicit growing interest among the corps members, attracting over 2000 applicants and participation in every edition.<\/p>\n

In partnership with the NYSC Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development, SAED, the initiative prominently features a business pitch presentation that provides the participants with the opportunity to present their business plans and stand a chance to win up to N500, 000 cash in the business grant.<\/p>\n

So far, Unity Bank has invested over N100 million in the initiative which has now produced 118 winners since it was launched in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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