Commission Trains 180 Women Entrepreneurs In Niger Delta

A full of 180 women entrepreneurs from crossed the Niger Delta portion person commenced a concern improvement grooming programme organised by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), successful collaboration with the Society of Women Accountants of Nigeria (SWAN), Port Harcourt chapter.

Speaking during the commencement of the grooming astatine the NDDC Event Centre successful Port Harcourt, the commission’s managing director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, said the programme was designed to fortify the capableness of women-led businesses, amended fiscal literacy and beforehand economical independency among women successful the region.

Ogbuku, who was represented by the NDDC enforcement director, Projects, Dr Victor Antai,  stated that empowering women has a ripple effect that benefits families, communities, and the nation.

He noted: “When you empower a woman, you empower the family, and by extension, the nation. That is wherefore the NDDC absorption graciously approved this programme.

“Since the inception of this administration, determination has been comparative bid successful the Niger Delta. I americium definite that earlier you implicit this training, you volition larn thing beneficial that volition interaction your business.”

He urged the participants to instrumentality vantage of the accidental to amended themselves.

Also speaking astatine the event, the NDDC director, Commercial and Industrial Development, Mr Friday Ehiorobe, said that the grooming was portion of the commission’s efforts to align with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s inaugural to enactment entrepreneurs and make section capacity.

“We are present contiguous to thatch you bookkeeping and however to negociate your businesses. This grooming is imaginable due to the fact that the MD/CEO, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, is profoundly committed to the well-being of men, women and youths, particularly from the Niger Delta. Today, our absorption is connected women who tally micro, small, and mean enterprises,” helium said.

Ehiorobe urged the participants to instrumentality the grooming seriously, assuring them that the skills acquired would heighten the sustainability and profitability of their businesses.

In her remarks, the chairperson of the Society of Women Accountants of Nigeria, Port Harcourt Chapter, Mrs. Isioma Onwo, said the grooming program was developed to equip participants with applicable skills successful bookkeeping, fiscal literacy, taxation awareness, and the usage of accounting tools specified arsenic Excel and QuickBooks.

“By the extremity of our clip together, you volition beryllium capable to confidently support due records and summation penetration into cardinal areas that enactment the sustainability of your businesses,” she said.