……Delineates State into 132 Units for Smooth Take-off of the Programme.
Ekiti State Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment has delineated the State into 132 Units in preparation for the commencement of the guided Agency Banking Programme in Ekiti State under which many unemployed youths in the state would be empowered
The State Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Otunba Kayode Fasae made this known in Ado-Ekiti during an inter-ministerial meeting with relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies that would play roles in the mobilization of relevant stakeholders and participants for the programme.
Otunba Fasae who described Agency Banking as a strategy in the Financial Industry that uses authorized Agents to deliver financial services to customers living in the remote areas and beyond the reach of the traditional branch network. He said would-be beneficiaries are to form cluster groups before they can take part in the programme.
The Commissioner also disclosed that government would soon begin collation of data of unemployed youths, market women, artisans, okada riders, people with disabilities and other citizens between the ages of 18 and 50 adding that every individual captured under the programme would have a unique means of identification so that they could easily be contacted whenever there are job opportunities and other empowerment opportunities.
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He also revealed that the government is taking financial services to all the 177 wards in the State adding that the State Government is partnering with interested banks in the 3 Senatorial Districts of the state.
The Commissioner intimated the relevant MDAs that the Ministry has had meetings with intending banks such as Wema, Stanbic IBTC, and First City Monumen Bank (FCMB) for the proposed programme adding that over 1,000 youth would be engaged as commission agents and 200 as sole agents for job creation.
𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄: 𝐄𝐊𝐈𝐓𝐈, 𝟑𝟓 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐀𝐀𝐌𝐏’𝐒 $𝟔𝟎𝟎 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐔𝐏
..As Coordinator Hails Oyebanji for Adequate
Project Funding
The Ekiti State Government has signed a
Subsidiary Loan Agreement…
𝐈’𝐥𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐢 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧 – 𝐎𝐲𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐢
…Commissions drug warehouse, distributes equipment to PHCs
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, has promised to ensure quality healthcare…
𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆:
Ekiti State Governor, H.E. Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, is currently delivering the State of the State Address at the Ekiti State House of Assembly, presenting a comprehensive stewardship account of his administration.
As part of activities commemorating the 3rd…
Governor Biodun Oyebanji earlier today performed the official commissioning of the ultra-modern Drugs Management and Central Medical Store Warehouse at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Ado-Ekiti.
2 Comments
Ajayi Aderonke Hellen
This is good news May God bless Ekiti State
Ajayi Folakemi
Impressive God will continue to bless Us in Ekiti state