In a renewed effort geared towards rooting out poverty and unemployment in the country, the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, Oyo state has assured that it will continue to give the needed support to Small Scale businesses in the country.
Speaking at the official flag-off of loan disbursement exercise for the 74 beneficiaries of Micro Enterprise Enhancement Scheme (MEES) in Ibadan, the NDE Oyo State Coordinator, Mrs Olayemi Olayinka, who represented the Director General, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, described the event as a laudable initiative of the federal government aimed at fighting poverty to a standstill.
He expressed hope that the disbursement will boost micro economic growth and more importantly, help beneficiaries who are mainly petty traders start up or expand on their existing businesses.
Similarly, the Head of Department, Small Scale Enterprise (SSE), Oyo State, Mrs Steve-Ogundipe, advised the beneficiaries to seize the opportunity to turn around their economic fortune, reduce poverty and create more wealth in the country. She also appealed to them to make good use of the fund to better their lots and that of the country.
So far, both indigenes and non-indigenes across the three (3) senatorial districts in the state had benefitted immensely from various NDE schemes and their testimonies have been quite amazing.
