UNITY Bank has boosted job creation and entrepreneurship with its yearly Corpreneurship competition where 30 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) won prizes and grants worth N10 million.
Three winners each emerged from 10 states and Abuja where Union Bank has branches at the event which held last week.
The states included Lagos, Ogun, Benin, Akwa Ibom, Kano, Sokoto, Enugu, Osun and Kwara.
The prizes included a N200, 000 business grant for third place winners; N300, 000 business grant for the second place and a star prize of N500, 000 for the winners.
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.
In Lagos, Aliu Haira Abimbola, Uzoechi Ihuoma Augustus and Adesanolu Lukmon Abiodun were the winners.
A winner in Abuja, Ebingha Ogbe John appreciated Unity Bank for the opportunity, which she said, had helped her to showcase her business.
“I thank Unity Bank for making my project, Mama’s Ally Crashfish, to come alive in this Abuja,’’ she said.
Over 2000 applications were received but only 100 were shortlisted for the pitch from where the winners emerged.
The contestants’ 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.
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