What we’re doing to empower women entrepreneurs - Official

Bola Dapo- Thomas, the permanent secretary in the Lagos State ministry of wealth creation and employment, has said that the partnership between the government and Access Bank through the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) was aimed at giving women entrepreneurs leverage in the labour market.

According to Dapo-thomas, the “LSTF W-initiative” was recently launched by the state government to facilitate the development and growth of female entrepreneurs, adding that the initiative will make N10 billion available for women entrepreneurs in Lagos State to grow their businesses and consequently create employment for youth.

She this recently while speaking on programmes for the support of small businesses at a leadership and economic workshop themed “empowered to break frontiers”, organised by the Redeemed Christian Church Of God.

She noted that the ministry of wealth creation and employment had deployed a range of intervention activities to tackle unemployment, promote job creation, entrepreneurship and skill development in the State, saying that these activities are targeted at every Lagosian irrespective of gender, religion or tribe with a commitment to ensure at least 50 percent of the beneficiaries are women.

She said that Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu recently celebrated successful applicants and beneficiaries of the employment trust fund loan programmes, adding that over 10,753 entrepreneurs have been successfully credited with N7.5 billion in the last four years and this has resulted in the creation of 96, 142 jobs.