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ASBON Business CLUB, Ikeja, Lagos (2026)

09/06/2025

You're Invited!

ASBON SME BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2025

Date: July 3, 2025
Venue: Ikeja, Lagos State.
Theme: Thriving Amidst Uncertainty: Resilience Strategies for Sustainable Small Business Success

This is where things actually happen. It’s not about polished pitches or overhyped ideas—it’s about raw conversations, real innovations, strategies and connecting with the people who are rolling up their sleeves to shape Nigeria’s business future.

If you’re looking for fluff, this isn’t it.

But if you want to walk away with fresh insights, meaningful connections, actionable strategies, and a clear sense of what’s next with your business, then this is exactly where you need to be.

🔗 Secure your spot now:

https://forms.gle/rbXLGSyocy6kyvUT8

Hybrid Participation - Limited Seats Available

16/02/2024

NAFDAC, Listen To The Voice Of The People!

Micro Packaging and Mini Packs Are The New Currency Of Today's Industrialized World .... Nigeria Can't Be Different!

Reverse Your Ban On Sachet and Small-Sized Bottles Alcoholic Beverages.

There Are More Innovative Ways To Address Your Reason For The Ban!!

15/02/2024

Call For Applications: She Leads Africa’s Business Accelerator Program for Nigerian Female Entrepreneurs

Why apply? Get access to personalized coaching by seasoned business coaches, access business training and opportunities to pitch before investors.

She Leads Africa is an organization that helps young African women achieve their professional dreams through engaging & life-transforming programs & events. We have trained and helped over 13000 females in businesses and careers in Africa.

Eligibility Criteria:

A business with at least one female member on the founding team between the ages of 18 and 35

A business that is less than 5 years in operation

A business that is based in Nigeria

A business that has received less than $50,000 in funding

A business that has an annual revenue turnover of NGN 3m and above

A business that has already begun operations and has a live product or service on the market.

Application Process

Step 1: Click the ‘Apply Now’ button, fill out the application form, and upload the required documents.

Step 2: Get on-boarded on the SLA website where all your learning will take place.

Step 3: Get access to over 18 Masterclasses on crucial business skills with top business experts, every month for the next 4 months.

Step 4: Get assigned to Buddies AKA accountability partners as well as a supportive community of women to help you through this journey.

Step 5: Get assigned to your business coach who will be working with you in setting KPIs for your business, provide guidance on what masterclasses are relevant for your business goals and any help that you may need.

Step 6: Investor run! Present your business to local and international investors.

Timeline:

Program Duration: 3 months

Application closes: March 1st, 2024 at 12pm WAT

Training Kicks off: March 2024

Deadline: March 1, 2024

Click HERE to Apply

https://sheleadsafrica.org/

14/02/2024

2024 Biodun and Ibikunle Foundation Entrepreneurship Incubation Program | How to Apply

Biodun and Ibikunle Foundation is to drive the entrepreneurial revolution in Nigeria and Africa through the SEEDINVEST Acceleration Program.

The Entrepreneurship Incubation Program provides undergraduate entrepreneurs from tertiary institutions across Nigeria with entrepreneurial training, asset support and advisory services to enable them run better businesses.

Biodun and Ibikunle Foundation Entrepreneurship Incubation Program Summary:

Host Country: Nigeria

Category: Competitions | Training

Eligible Countries: Nigeria

Reward: Cash Prize | Mentorship

No IELTS Required

Deadline: February 25, 2024

Scholarship Alerts: To receive Scholarship

Alerts on WhatsApp, Click HERE

Biodun and Ibikunle Foundation Entrepreneurship Incubation Program Details:

The Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Incubation Program (UEIP) is built off our SEEDINVEST Acceleration Program and targeted at undergraduate entrepreneurs in Nigerian tertiary institutions.

It was initiated based on the need to empower the proactive undergraduates who dare to start enterprises even while in school.

Ground Rules for 2024 Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Incubation Programme:

1. Record a 60 secs Business Pitch telling us about yourself, your business, the impact your business has made in the community you operate and why we should select you for the programme.

2. Your Business Pitch must be posted on your Instagram Business handle, not your personal page then Invite/Tag as a collaborator. Check the pictures in the slides for guide.

3. Fill the application form by clicking on the button below and submit. The Business Pitch and Application forms are MANDATORY steps you must complete.

4. Our team will review your application and pitch, if you are successful you will then be moved to the voting rounds and also get an Instagram DM to notify you.

Please ensure your pitch voice is audible and video shot in your work environment. No background music should be included in the video.

5. Voting takes places on our Foundation’s page and handle. Follow our IG account and subscribe to our YouTube channel () before sending in your applications/pitch.

6. Once your application is successful, your business pitch will be re-posted on the Foundation’s YouTube channel, after which your invite on Instagram will be accepted for voting within 24-48 hours.

7. Your voters (friends, customers, family members etc.) should follow on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel for their votes to count.

8. Voting buying is discouraged. If the Foundation discovers vote buying, you will be disqualified.

9. Successful applicants must engage their voters on and off our platform for votes (likes). Engagements will be tracked.

Eligibility Requirements for 2024 Biodun and Ibikunle Foundation Entrepreneurship Incubation Program:

To be considered for the Entrepreneurship Incubation Program, you must:

Must be an undergraduate entrepreneur schooling at any of the tertiary institutions across Nigeria with a valid ID Card/Admission Letter.

Postgraduate or Master’s students are not eligible.

Business must be registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission.

Business must be operational for a minimum of six (6) months.

Applicant must have a 1-year business plan.

Applicant must have a business account with any of the commercial banks in Nigeria.

Business address must be verifiable.

Benefits of Biodun and Ibikunle Foundation Entrepreneurship Incubation Program:

The program will award successful applicants with entrepreneurial skills cash prize for their business.

How to Apply for Biodun and Ibikunle Foundation Entrepreneurship Incubation Program:

Interested and qualified applicants should use the link created below to proceed to the application page.

Best Wishes.

Deadline: February 25, 2024

12/02/2024

Lagos launches two-month all-expense paid training programme

Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced the launch of “Project Loud,” a two-month, all-expenses-paid training programme aimed at empowering Lagosians with vocational skills.

The initiative, dubbed “Lagos of Our Dreams,” offers free training in mixology, catering, tailoring, makeup/gele, wig-making, shoemaking, facials & massage, manicure & pedicure, baking, and pastries to all residents.

Interested candidates can register for any of the classes by visiting

http://projectloudskillscenter.com

or

physically at 114 Western Avenue, beside Qua-Iboe Church, Barracks Bus-stop, Surulere, Lagos State.

12/02/2024

Apply Now: MEST Entrepreneurship Training Program For Africans

Digital skills and technology solutions are more critical for African economies as they embrace digital transformation.

Countries are positioning themselves as major tech hubs as the world goes virtual.

Entrepreneurs need to become more prepared for African digital economies which can have limited opportunities for business growth and development.

Digital skills are an important tool for promoting social and economic development, create new jobs, and drive innovation.

MEST Entrepreneurship Training Program

MEST Entrepreneurship Training Program offers a 12-month graduate-level training to aspiring entrepreneurs across the African continent.

This fully sponsored program, based in Accra, helps budding entrepreneurs transform their ideas into viable startup businesses through various modules including software development, go-to-market strategies, sales strategies, UI/UX Design, communications and more.

Become an Entrepreneur-In-Training and learn how to pitch your startup ideas for funding and launch a business that solves local and global problems through software technology

Since its inception in 2008, MEST has invested over $30m in training 2000+ individual entrepreneurs and funded 90+ software companies across Africa.

MEST entrepreneurs have developed solutions addressing local, regional and global markets, received follow-on funding from global investors, and gotten into top accelerator programs such as Y Combinator, 500 Startups and TechStars.

Apply Now! Deadline is 18th March 2024.

https://meltwater.org/mest-africa-training-program/

11/02/2024

Sanwo-Olu to commence distribution of N750 million to 15,000 Lagos traders

“He promised them N50,000 per beneficiary for 15,000 people for the Lagos Market Trader Money."

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, will flag off a N750 million financial intervention scheme tagged ‘Lagos Market Trader Money’ for 15,000 beneficiaries on 14 February.

Abisola Olusanya, the Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, said this during a sensitisation programme on hygiene for 500 market men and women from Ikeja and Oshodi Local Government Areas on Saturday at Lagos Fresh Food Hub, Idi-Oro, Mushin.

Ms Olusanya said the flag-off exercise was an opportunity for the governor to demonstrate his love for the market men and women on Valentine’s Day.

“By Wednesday, Valentine’s Day, Mr governor is going to be showing love to market traders, men and women in Lagos.

“He promised them N50,000 per beneficiary for 15,000 people for the Lagos Market Trader Money; he is going to be launching it on that day.

“It is part of his show of love to say we hear you, we hear your cry, we are all in this together and we will come out of this better and stronger,” she said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor had on 18 December announced a N750 million financial intervention scheme for Lagos traders tagged ‘Lagos Trader Money.’

Under the scheme, 15,000 traders across all the local government areas of the state – 200 from each LGA – received N50,000 each to boost their businesses.

The governor announced the scheme during the unveiling of the Mid-level Agro-Produce Hub at Idi-Oro in the Mushin area of the state.

He said the Commissioner for Agriculture and the local government chairmen in the state would meet to map out the modalities for the disbursement of the fund.

He said, “The government has come up with an intervention for all market men and women. The Market/Trader Money is for 15,000 beneficiaries as support.

“Each beneficiary will get N50,000 from the government. Each local government will submit 200 names.”

11/02/2024

FCMB launches accelerator programme for one million SMEs

First City Monument Bank has launched an accelerator programme to upskill and grow over one million small and medium-sized enterprises in Nigeria.

A statement from the bank on Tuesday said that the programme would be done in partnership with e-learning platform SkillPaddy and other industry experts.

Accelerator programmes provide intensive guidance, support and structure for a set period, typically three months. When applying to a startup accelerator programme, applicants are expected to have more than an idea—a prototype or an actual product.

“The bank aims to upskill about one million SMEs through a Technical Assistance grant of N284.7m from Proparco (the private-sector arm of the French Development Agency) and another N227m from the African Development Bank.

“These will enable FCMB to facilitate the successful onboarding and empowerment of SMEs, including women entrepreneurs, under its SheVentures proposition and those operating in high-impact sectors (agriculture, renewable energy, digital),” the lender stated.

FCMB’s Group Head of SME Banking, George Ogbonnaya, commenting on the programme, said, “The FCMB Accelerator Programme reaffirms our dedication to empowering businesses effectively. We want to inspire Nigerians to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams and build a portfolio of ready businesses that can transform Nigeria’s economy.

“FCMB is committed to supporting women-led SMEs. Through mentorship and access to finance, we will continue to empower these incredible entrepreneurs.”

The founder and Chief Executive Officer of SkillPaddy, Kunle Erinle, noted that the partnership with FCMB would be a game-changer for SMEs.

“By accelerating productivity, we can unlock doors of opportunity for startups and existing businesses, ultimately boosting Nigeria’s economic growth,” he said.

To kick off the programme, the lender awarded N50m grants to 200 SMEs that participated in the first training session.

This announcement was made at an event celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week 2023.

A grant recipient, Oladimeji Olanrewaju, expressed her excitement, saying, “I’m grateful to FCMB for this opportunity and look forward to scaling up my business through the programme.”

Since 2018, the bank has extended N1.34tn credit to over 98,000 SMEs across diverse sectors.

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