In line with its culture as a timeless wealth partners, Heritage
Bank Plc has restated its commitment to support National Youth Service
Corp members and young entrepreneurs to grow their businesses as a start-up or
prospective business owners.
The MD/CEO of Heritage Bank, Ifie Sekibo disclosed this at the weekend during the Leadership Development Programme for Corps member organised by Guardians of the Nation International (GOTNI), nationwide.
The bank is currently in partnership with GOTNI, a capacity building
organisation to present leadership programs in all the NYSC Orientation camps in
the 36 States.
According to the MD in a message to the Corps members, the
partnership is a demonstration of Heritage
Bank’s commitment to using financial inclusion to boost entrepreneurship
development, which is critical to our mission to create, preserve and transfer
wealth across generations.
He explained that Heritage Bank’s various entrepreneur schemes in
the support for business had always focused on dependable job-creating sectors,
such as agricultural value chain (fish farming, poultry, snail farming),
cottage industry, mining and solid minerals, creative industry (tourism, arts
and crafts), and Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
Sekibo restated that the aim of Heritage Bank being in the
forefront of youth empowerment is to emancipate the latent entrepreneurial
spirit in the teeming youths.
“At Heritage, nothing else is more fulfilling than to
groom-to-empower young aspiring start-up entrepreneurs, as we mentor them to
grow and become large corporates enlisted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
“In recent times, we have worked with NYSC and the Central Bank of Nigeria to support youth Corp members and young entrepreneurs to grow their businesses as a start-up or prospective business owners.
As a timeless wealth partner, we are here today to support you in your endeavours and empower and hold you, hand-in-hand, thereby providing timely quality business support services for promising and better future after your service year,” he explained.
The bank’s MD, however, commended the Corp members for their
willingness to obey the clarion call to serve their nation, whilst urging them
to serve and put the Nation first in all, with service and humility, in order
to make Nigeria great again.
Meanwhile, he reiterated that the bank had continued to make
efforts to lead the recovery of the Nigerian economy through championing
several empowerment schemes like Youth Innovative Entrepreneurship
Development Programme (YIEDP), Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL) on Young Entrepreneurship Business Training Programme
(YEBTP),Young Entrepreneurs and Students (YES) Grant and Nigerian Youth
Professional Forum (NYPF), amongst others.
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