Access Bank Plc says it has doled out a N30m grant to 20 serving corps members across the country with exceptional business ideas.
The bank in a statement yesterday said through its Accesspreneur program in partnership with the National Youth Service Corps [NYSC], the beneficiaries were considered due to their entrepreneurial ideas.
The Group Head, Consumer Banking, Access Bank Plc, Adaeze Umeh, during the NYSC Access Bank Accesspreneur competition held in Abuja, said its relationship with NYSC morphed into the launch of the competition and it has completed six editions of the competition, impacting over 390 corps members with over N165m seed capital.
“Access Bank has been in a strategic partnership with NYSC since 2016. We have also created a Facebook community for all Accesspreneur winners to be able to interact freely amongst themselves and inspire other young people with similar aspirations. The Facebook community has about 5,000 members,” Umeh said.
Abuja star-prize winner, Laura Momodu, a fashion designer thanked the bank for the gesture.
Also, the first runner-up, Vivian Charles who was awarded N750,000 for her ideas on healthy spices used for meals, was full of appreciation to the bank.
The bank also rewarded other corps members in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th -10th positions with N400,000, N250,000, N150,000, and N100,000 respectively.