FATE Foundation to host MSME forum next month

Fate Foundation will hold a maiden conference on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in November.

The event has the theme, ‘The Road to Sustainable Growth to Nigeria Entrepreneurs’ is designed to attract small business owners, professionals, entrepreneurship leaders and institutions to discuss how entrepreneurs can overcome current economic challenges in the country.

The event is schedule to take place at the Banquette Hall, Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos on Tuesday, 15th November, 2016.

FATE Foundation is Nigeria’s leading nonprofit making organisation, promoting business and entrepreneurial development in the country.

“The event is focused on ensuring that entrepreneurs overcome the present economic challenge and thrive so that they can create jobs,” said Ibrahim Salau, chairman, alumni conference planning committee, Fate Foundation.

“Aside the keynote address, there will also be syndicate sessions focusing on digital marketing, export opportunities, accessing funding and human resource management,” Salau said.

Salau noted that there will be exhibitions during the conference, which is expected to attract about 200 alumni business men and women from across different sectors and industries in the country, who are graduates of Fate Foundation.

Ibukun Awosika, a renowned business magnet, author, motivational speaker, talk-show host and chairman, board of directors, First Bank of Nigeria, will be the key note speaker.

Adenike Adeyemi, executive director, Fate Foundation, said, “The event is a window for our Alumni to learn from entrepreneurial leaders and influencers, to share knowledge about key topical areas to grow and thrive as entrepreneurs while also giving them an opportunity to network and connect with one another.”

Since inception, FATE has graduated almost 5000 entrepreneurs from its aspiring, emerging and special entrepreneurs’ development programmes and trained over 28,000 Nigerians in its short entrepreneurship certificate courses.

The foundation has also enabled over 60,700 Nigerian youths on the path to entrepreneurship. About 65 percent of its alumni are actively running their businesses and most are beneficiaries of alumni support services.