The organisers of the event stated this at a press conference held at Sterling Bank’s head office in Lagos this week.In her welcome address, Head of Communications, Sterling Bank, Tomi Ajakaiye, said this event is powered by One-Woman proposition, adding that Mums in Business is a platform that brings together successful women in business and work-spaces such as fashion, law, beauty and health, among others. She said the value proposition of One-Woman comprised of an array of different value-added offerings to meet financial, business and personal needs of women in Nigeria and to foster support by providing platforms for women to support other women. personal loan, asset acquisition loan, MSME loans,) for women and Womenpreneurship and capacity building programme for young women. Others are internship opportunities and job shadowing schemes for young women with access to the MSME academy for free or at a discount. Also speaking, Chief Legal Counsel for Sterling Bank, Mrs. Justina Lewa, said it has become imperative for women to support women because when a woman is empowered, she will, in turn, empower everything around her.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2017 02:26 UTC