By Demilade Aderibigbe
Nigeria’s leading commercial bank, Access Bank Plc has announced that qualified women entrepreneurs can apply for the Womenpreneur Pitch-A-Ton Africa, which entered its third season this year.
The competition which is for women segment of the bank, is open to all women customers of the bank who owns and runs their business, whose business are innovative and needs some expert training to help grow, or a grant for expansion.
All that any qualified women in business needs to do is to go to https://www.womenpreneur.ng/#register and create a profile.
The opportunity closes on August 13, 2021.
According to the bank, winners have the opportunity of winning up to N5 million in grant to expand their business and a mini MBA to deepen their understanding of business and how to be successful on their career path.
Launched in 2019, the Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa was the first of its kind women-in-business support initiative in the industry offered by the Access Bank W Initiative.
The programme in its maiden edition provided financial grants worth N9million to the top five applicants with a free mini MBA certification for 50 women entrepreneurs in Nigeria. This it did in conjunction with the International Finance Corporation (IFC, a member of the World Bank Group).
This year, the me is being extended to nine other African countries where Access Bank’s W initiative has its presence. These countries are Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, Zambia, Sierra-Leone, Gambia, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Congo hence the tag name “Womenpreneur Pitch-A-Ton Africa