{"id":6279,"date":"2024-03-15T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=6279"},"modified":"2024-03-15T17:27:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:27:02","slug":"ikoyi-obalende-lcda-splashes-20m-on-400-women-to-boost-small-scale-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/ikoyi-obalende-lcda-splashes-20m-on-400-women-to-boost-small-scale-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikoyi-Obalende LCDA splashes #20m on 400 women to boost small scale businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a bid to boost the activities of the small scale businesses within Ikoyi-Obalende LCDA, the sum of twenty million naira has been disbursed to 400 women as part of finacial inclusion and direct empowerment programme from the council.<\/p>\n

The beneficiaries selected from all the jurisdiction within the council area will also enjoy free health insurance scheme in collaboration with the VFD Microfinace Bank.<\/p>\n

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\nIn a message to the event tagged “Empowering Her Fortunes” the state Deputy Governor, Dr Kadri Hamzat said more women have become self reliant and financial bouyant as a result of various programmes targeted at women and girl child in the state.<\/p>\n

Represented by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministrty of Wealth Creation, Dr Abiodu Onayele, the Deputy Governor said any investment on women will lead to boost in socio-economic development in the state.<\/p>\n

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Kadri Hamzat disclosed that the council Chairman was among those with enviable scorecards adding deliberate care for women raises hope for a better nation.<\/p>\n

Hon Julius Solomon who spoke on behalf of Prince Tajudeen Olusi, GAC member commended the Chairman for always given back to the society.<\/p>\n

He expressed joy with the execution of people’s oriented project which he said will lessen the pressure on the state government.<\/p>\n

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Prince noted that despite the allocation of huge resources to financial empowerment of residents, the infrastructural development keeps growing in the LCDA.<\/p>\n

On his part, the council chairman, Fuad Atanda-Lawal said their
\ncommitments to providing support for all the residents especially women in particular is non negotiable.<\/p>\n

According to hm, the women multiplies the wealth and opportunity put in their care and appealed to them to take full advantage of the financial support.<\/p>\n

He promised to continue with welfare programme until the last days in office adding the multipler effect of the support will soon manifest in the council area.<\/p>\n

The council Manager, Engineer Johnson expressed happiness with the people oriented projects being executed by the team.<\/p>\n

The Group Managing Director of the bank, Mr
\nMr Nomso Okpara said the collaboration with the council is encouraging saying it will change the landscape of the community.<\/p>\n

For the General Manager Business Banking and Partnership of the bank, Yonodu okeugo said the women stand to benefit immensely from the free health insurance scheme.<\/p>\n

She said empowering women is a core value of what the bank is all about noting they sponsored over 2,000 women two years ago in IT skills, 300 in Agriculture sector and also a few girls with opportunity in tthe Music industry<\/p>\n

Another staff of the Microfinace Bank
\nElizabeth Olufemi cautioned the women against frivolous spending now that they have receives support externally.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Olufemi who spoke on how to maximise finance, believe that the current economic situation in the country was more than enough to teach everyone financial literacy.<\/p>\n

She also urged them to develope a saving culture for the rainy day no matter how little their profit margin is.<\/p>\n

The leaders in the council area Mrs Omolara Vaughan and Hajia Moji Dange tanked the chairman for the gathering in which provvided opportunity on how to save and spend wisely.<\/p>\n

Some of the beneficiaries including Habibat Oluwatosin Ahmad who is into POS operation and Egugu Rasheedat, a cow skin seller thanked the Council Chairman for according priority to the plight of women and promised judicious use of the funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a bid to boost the activities of the small scale businesses within Ikoyi-Obalende LCDA, the sum of twenty million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6286,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions\/6286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}