Nigeria’s First Lady flags off Economic Empowerment Programme for women traders
By Ibrahim Umar
Kanempress News
23th August 2024
Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu has flagged off the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) Economic Empowerment Programme for women petty traders nationwide.
The scheme was launched on Thursday with a fifty Naira business recapitalization grant disbursement to thirty-seven thousand beneficiaries nationwide.
The First Lady flagged off the disbursement of the grant in Asaba, Delta State capital, where one thousand petty traders benefited from the scheme.
As one of the interventions under the economic empowerment program of RHI, the grant, she says, is targeted at helping petty traders overcome some of their business challenges, create more jobs, and expand the contributions of the informal sector to the national economy.
