Access Bank Plc has rewarded members of the Nigeria Youth Service Corps (NYSC) with over N15 million in its 3rd edition of Access Bank youth business challenge competition, known as “Accessprenuer”, which held recently across five States in Nigeria.
Nyscinfo gathered that five top winners won N1 million each, while others were rewarded with consolation cash prizes totaling N10 million during the final business pitch in the 3rd edition of the contest for ‘2021 NYSC Batch A Stream 2’ Orientation Camp. The excercise took place simultaneously across five NYSC camps, namely: Abuja, Osun, Enugu, Nassarawa and Rivers.
Those that won the N1 million star prize are:
- Esangbedo Precious (Abuja camp),
- Nwakor Favour Alex (Osun Camp)
- Olusanya Miracle (Rivers Camp)
- Omoha Arinze (Enugu) and
- Egbewole Abduljelli (Nassarawa camp)
Speaking on the Accessprenuer challenge initiative, Executive Director, Retail Banking, Access Bank Plc, Victor Etuokwu said the challenge was designed to promote entrepreneurial aspirations among Corp members.
“So far, the competition has proved to have a great impact on youth empowerment in the country as we received more entries during the current challenge. It is a way to support the young men and women who are just graduating from university to grow.
We are also using this as an opportunity to imbibe the spirit of entrepreneurship among the youths whilst providing them with financial grants through this competition to grow them from job seekers to employers of labour,” He said.
The pilot phase of the “Accessprenuer” challenge competition by Access Bank was in partnership with the NYSC Skills Acquisition & Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) took place across three states; Ogun, Enugu and Abuja in February this year.
The scheme trains NYSC members on business plan writing, after which a competition will be organized to select the top winners with bright and workable business ideas within the mandatory 21-day Camp Orientation exercise.
Source: Nyscinfo