The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund has said the recently unveiled Business Entry Guides booklet will serve as a practical guide for start-ups and add values to entrepreneurs in poultry, fashion and recycling businesses.
A statement said the booklet would also provide important business regulations in a single document and accessible format. It said that during the unveiling, entrepreneurs in the poultry, fashion and recycling business were trained in how to start and make progress in their businesses.
The Director, Strategy, Funding and Stakeholder Management, LSETF, Ojei Sheila, said, ‘‘In line with this objective, GIZ SEDIN is a programme with the overall objective of improving the employment and income situation of the Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.
Also speaking, Managing Director, Lagos Waste Management Authority, Mr Ibrahim Odumboni, advised recyclers and pickers to formalise their business process, adding that this would enable them to enjoy the benefits of the formal sector. ‘‘The Business Entry Guides encourages entrepreneurs to be formal in all their business endeavors as it guarantees them more value if they are formal.
‘‘It gives an opportunity to have over 15,000 unemployed people employed in the recycling sector; it gives us the opportunity in Lagos to have a bottle facility and the first in Nigeria.”
Our recyclers will get more value. There is a lot of value for the pickers. Let them register with us, we will give them the opportunity to be mentored.’’
