Unity Bank partners NYSC on SAED
The Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED), Department has created opportunities for financing Corps members business proposals through many channels such as the unity Bank funded bankable proposal competition.
The competition was organised to improve the ability of Corps members to bridge the gap in the quality of bankable business proposals.
That assertion was made by the State Coordinator NYSC Gombe, who was ably represented by the Camp Director, Mr Ado Danladi Taura, at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Batch ‘B’Stream II Skills Acquisition and Entreprenuetship Development Sensitisation, at NYSC Temporary Orientation Camp Amada, Gombe State.
Taura maintained that Unity Bank is enrolling an enterprise development programme titled corpreneurship in the Orientation Camps in the 36 States and FCT ,which would offer a sandwich training and competition, leading to the award of business funds as prizes.
He added that winners would be selected through a competitive process at the Orientation Camps and be empowered with both further training and finance.
Periscope Nigeria recalls that in March 2012, NYSC Management introduced the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship (SAED) Programme into the NYSC orientation course content.
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The goals of the programme include; sensitisation and mobilisation of young graduates for skill acquisition annually and facilitation of training and mentoring of young graduates in skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development for self-reliance annually.
Others include; promotion of public-private partnership for entrepreneurship development and self-reliance among Nigerian youths and attachment of corps members to appropriate organisations for skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development Post camp training.
There was lecture on Entrepreneurship Development by Alhaji Abdullahi Maidabino of National Directorate of Employment, Gombe State .
About nine hundred,(900) Prospective Corps members were at the sensitisation.
