The Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) initiatives, especially those scripted by financial institutions, are gradually discovering and reinventing ideas, leading to increased entrepreneurship in the country. Globally, it is acknowledged that SMEs hold the key to economic development, as a thriving entrepreneurship, irrespective of its size, has the potential to offer employment to one or two persons or more. “We are excited to institutionalise and curate the popular but largely informal Jollof conversations into a national culinary competition. Already, the winner, Osikoya, got N1million prize and also earned the national Jollof Master bragging rights, delivered across three major evaluation criteria – execution, appearance and taste – during the final cookout. Oni and Onifade, first and second runners up, won N200,000 and N100,000 respectively.

Source: The Guardian December 31, 2019 04:30 UTC