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The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) has created 320,000 direct and indirect jobs across Lagos state, and trained more than 30,000 youths for employment opportunities, while 173,000 jobs that were on the brink of losses were successfully saved in the past ten years.
Reflecting on the Fund’s impact to mark a decade of existence, Feyisayo Alayande, executive secretary of the Fund, also noted that the institution’s mission was around a single, foundational principle which is access.
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“The difference between a Lagos resident who builds something and one who cannot, is rarely talent; it is almost always access,” Alayande noted. “Access to capital, knowledge, markets, networks. LSETF exists to close that gap.
According to her, more than N15 billion has been disbursed across to over 20,000 loans to MSMEs,
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