About 600 Entrepreneurs Get N90m, Other Empowerment Packages In Bayelsa.
No fewer than 600 young entrepreneurs in Bayelsa State, including women and youths, have received N150,000 each and free POS terminals as business support to boost their enterprises.
The beneficiaries were those who successfully completed their training and registration with the Federal University Otuoke, under the Douye Diri Skills Acquisition and Empowerment Programme.
The disbursement was made during activities marking the 2026 World Entrepreneurship Day held at the Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha Memorial Banquet Hall, Government House, Yenagoa.
Speaking at the ceremony, the state Governor, His Excellency, Senator Douye Diri who was represented by his Deputy His Excellency, Dr Peter Akpe said his administration would continue to create the enabling environment for businesses to thrive in the state.
The noted that the skills acquisition and capacity building for youths remains the solution to capital flight in the state, stressing that at the policy level, government’s key role is to sustain a conducive business ecosystem for indigenous enterprises.
He urged school curriculum planners to consciously incorporate practical skills acquisition modules and make entrepreneurship development a compulsory subject in the school system.
The Governor commended his Technical Adviser on Entrepreneurship Development, Mrs Charity Kens-Godwin, for her vision, resilience, consistency, focus and demonstration of leadership, and reminded the 600 beneficiaries that it requires consistency to grow young businesses into successful enterprises.
Speaking earlier, the Technical Adviser to the Governor on Entrepreneurship Development, Mrs Charity Kens-Godwin, said the event was to honour 600 outstanding Douye Diri skills entrepreneurs.
Kens-Godwin said so far, over 5,000 Bayelsans have been trained and equipped with various skills under the training and empowerment programme of the Douye Diri administration.
She also disclosed that her office had facilitated the registration of about 2,000 businesses belonging to Bayelsans with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), adding that over 32,000 applications have already been received from across the eight LGAs of the state ahead of phase four of the programme.
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