Selected widows operating small-scale businesses in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State have received grants to support their businesses from a former member of the State House of Assembly, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye.\n<\/p>\n
The beneficiaries received the grant ranging from N30,000 to N50,000 at an event held in Ibokun on Tuesday to commemorate Oyintiloye\u2019s birthday.\n<\/p>\n
Speaking at the event, Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State, described the gesture as part of efforts to reinforce the initiative championed by the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, to encourage women\u2019s participation in small-scale businesses.\n<\/p>\n
He explained that the intervention aimed to promote the dignity of labour and support women in starting small enterprises or expanding existing ones.<\/p>\n
He berated those faulting Oluremi Tinubu\u2019s advocacy for small-scale ventures, saying those that opposed the First Lady\u2019s ideas were ignorant of the values inherent in honest work.\n<\/p>\n
He maintained that economic growth is usually sustained by the strength of small and medium-scale enterprises, noting that many families depend on such ventures for survival.\n<\/p>\n
According to him, those attacking the First Lady were \u201cmerely seeking political relevance and failing to acknowledge the long-term benefits of encouraging entrepreneurship at the grassroots.\u201d<\/p>\n
The statement further read, \u201cThere are many people who became very successful in business through petty trading, such as selling tomatoes and roasted corn. Today, their stories have changed, and they have eventually become employers of labour.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cStarting small, as encouraged by the wife of the President, is far better than engaging in prostitution or other illicit acts.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe support for widows in my hometown is intended to further emphasise the importance of starting small and being self-reliant.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
He urged beneficiaries to utilise the cash donations for the right purpose, assuring them of constant support to further grow their businesses.\n<\/p>\n
In his sermon at the event, the immediate past Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Obokun Local Government chapter, Pastor Benjamin Fabelurin, said birthday celebrations and personal reflection are biblically grounded and divinely inspired.\n<\/p>\n
Quoting Psalm 90:12\u201317, he urged Christians to number their days with wisdom and commit themselves to purposeful living and positive impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selected widows operating small-scale businesses in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State have received grants to support…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[165847,45,278213,49,48,137,5687,278214,278215,278216,11274,278217,10021],"class_list":["post-787315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-apc","tag-business","tag-business-grant","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-nigeria","tag-olatunbosun-oyintiloye","tag-oluremi-tinubu","tag-osun-state","tag-small-business","tag-widows-support","tag-women-empowerment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}