We Have Disbursed N2bn Loan to Assist Women — BOI Boss
THE Bank of Industry (BOI) has disbursed N2 billion under its cooperative lending scheme to assist Nigerian women. This was disclosed by Ms. Evlyn Oputu, managing director of the bank who also said this at a two-day entrepreneurial empowerment workshop last week in Abuja that the bank was exploring more avenues of funding for entrepreneurs, particularly for women entrepreneurs.
She urged women to learn from men who are ready to do whatever is necessary to strategically position their businesses adding that whereas an average man in business understands the importance of positive image building and products branding in his business, women sometimes induce low mentality in their businesses. She said there is need for a change of both attitude and strategy for women to optimize their potentials.
The BOI boss said a dispassionate appraisal would show that women are at the bottom of everything in society not only in Nigeria but elsewhere in the world, and that so much lip service is currently paid to the knotty issue of economically and politically empowering womenfolk. “Because we think we are in competition with one another, we tend not to be nice to one another”, she said. “The world in recent times has witnessed a lot of dramatic changes in global women development efforts for national growth and Nigeria cannot be an exception”.
She urged women to learn from men who are ready to do whatever is necessary to strategically position their businesses adding that whereas an average man in business understands the importance of positive image building and products branding in his business, women sometimes induce low mentality in their businesses. She said there is need for a change of both attitude and strategy for women to optimize their potentials.
The BOI boss said a dispassionate appraisal would show that women are at the bottom of everything in society not only in Nigeria but elsewhere in the world, and that so much lip service is currently paid to the knotty issue of economically and politically empowering womenfolk. “Because we think we are in competition with one another, we tend not to be nice to one another”, she said. “The world in recent times has witnessed a lot of dramatic changes in global women development efforts for national growth and Nigeria cannot be an exception”.
