The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board has advocated for more chief executives in the country’s oil and gas sector.
He stated, “One of the reasons for getting this programme done is to ensure that women that participate in oil and gas business can have access to the [gender-based] fund,” explaining that the strategy is, “Teach them entrepreneurship; let them be entrepreneurs, so they will be able to apply.”
A pool of funds totalling US$40m, generated by the NCDMB and NEXIM, is available to women in oil and gas under the NCI Fund. He noted that it was customary for the NCDMB to carry out entrepreneurship training alongside its other training programmes for the youth. He stated “One of the things we always do with our human capacity development programmes is to train the participants on entrepreneurship, to ensure that if they do not get any form of employment, they can do business on their own. In 2022, we trained 150 persons in different skill sets, and about 50 of them are now entrepreneurs in different fields. Some of them are watch repairers; some of them are dressmakers, caterers, phone repairers.
The workshop tagged “Entrepreneurship Development Training for Women Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs” was designed to teach how to women CEOs to ‘Identify your entrepreneurial potential; develop your personal entrepreneurial competencies, and identify new business opportunities’.All rights reserved.
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