Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja A total of 2.
3 million Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises have accessed interest-free loans under the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, the Federal Government announced on Friday.
Speaking at the one-year anniversary of her ministry in Abuja, she explained that beneficiaries of the programme involved people who were in active commercial activities but never had the opportunity to access loans. The minister said about 109,823 beneficiaries from Batches A and B of the N-Power scheme had gone on to set up businesses in their communities.
She said the total number of children enrolled on the programme was 9,196,823, as verified by the National Bureau of Statistics, while the total number of cooks was 103,028. “With the accelerated registration and rapid expansion, the register has as at June 30 grown to 3.7 million across 36 states and the FCT.”
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