RIL awards N1m to two entrepreneurs

Two young entrepreneurs and alumni of Resource Intermediaries Limited (RIL) Finishing School have received N.5 millon grants each to start their businesses. The awardees were picked from several other entrants after a rigorous screening process.
At the grant award ceremony, which held in Lagos, recently, the managing director of RIL, Olusoji Oyawoye, encouraged the winners ‘’to use the grant judiciously and become employers themselves as the grant was more than just giving them a means of self-employment.’’
The winners Oluyemi Gabriel Ogunnaike and Oluwatosin Mary Oguntuga expressed their gratitude and promised to make the best use of the opportunity they have been given.
Mary, a graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University runs Delight Kitchen, which provides homemade soup for as low as N300 in Ijebu Ode, with orders and payments made online. Gabriel runs an event management and rentals business.
Speaking about the event, Tutu Okunubi of RIL, said: “The RIL Finishing School is for young graduates and school leavers, where we train them on how to be entrepreneurs, how to run their own businesses, and generally prepare them for the job market. It’s also called the entrepreneurs skill programme. We give half a million naira grant to the person with the best business plan, twice a year.”
Resource Intermediaries Limited funds the award from its coffers because it understands the need to encourage excellence and entrepreneurship.