The Director General of International Institute of Professional Corporate Entrepreneurship and Leadership (IIPCEL), Godwin E. Urhie, has described entrepreneur as the bedrock of every society’s development and wealth and should be embraced jealously.
He stated this on the occasion marking Nigeria’s Democracy Day Celebration and Group Discussion of IIPCEL with the: Inspiring Youths & Women for Wealth Creation & National Development Through Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiating Convergence of Action & Outcomes”, held at the Plateau Club 1921Garden Jos, the Plateau State capital Wednesday.
The Director General said, “the only means of creating wealth or sustaining wealth and development in every society and nation is through entrepreneurship. So, we need to be trained in a community like our institute to be mentored.
“If we have access to government agencies’ support that provides the funds that we can channel through the process of receiving those funds then, we can set up a business and impact the society positively.
“Our IIPCEL is a professional institute recognised in Nigeria to regulate the practice of entrepreneurship and we have move entrepreneurship and leadership from Just a profession to a professor. So, when you come into the institute, you are not just practising a profession, but you are a professor”, explained.
On his part while stressing on the theme of the occasion, the President of the IIPCEL, Bitrus Pam Bandung, said, “the youth are the future of this country and encouraging women in businesses is a very good opportunity for them to manage funds even from family background.
“Woman can manage even much more as business women do so, this is a very well crafted theme to create this awareness among our youth and women and indeed the men to bring them to the knowledge of how to access funds and training.
“As we brought all these organisations together, it is an opportunity for us to interact to hear and to channel it through these organisations to have knowledge and funds and how to manage business to success”, he disclosed.
However, the Plateau State Manager of Small and Medium Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Jonathan Jafa, commended the successes recorded on the Plateau within 10 years of its operations as a Federal Government Agency.
“We have had alot of success on the Plateau with alot of our programmes because we also give grants, loans and trainings in churches, hospitals, mosques, schools and we have alot of partnership with Government that was why PLAMEDA was created”, he highlighted.
Also, Yop Pam Dareng, of the Safer World Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, encouraged Plateau youth to find something within their space to do because there were so many opportunities on the Plateau saying, “I don’t think there is anything beautiful than creating something”.
There were discussion as well as questions and answers sessions led by Segun Oluware respectively.
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