Unemployment:Entrepreneur Wants More Nigerians In Fashion Industry

A young Nigerian en
trepreneur and coordinator of Entrepreneur Relationship Atmosphere (ERA) Project, Miss Uduak Festus Ekpe, has described the Nigerian fashion industry as a multibillion naira enterprise that could solve the unemployment problem among the women.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt, Miss Ekpe who won the Miss Enterpreneur 2013 pageant said that the industry held the key to poverty eradication among women and other  unemployed people in the country.
She said that Entrepreneur Relationship Atmosphere (ERN) Project was about helping people by giving them credible information on how to set up businesses, draw business plan and proposals as well as the create  skills in chosen areas.
She also said that the ERA Project was out to create a network that is customer based, stressing that this would enable customers to always get satisfaction for services offered them.
Miss Ekpe said that the Enterpreneur Relationship Atmosphere was also building good relationship among peoples of diverse business backgrounds irrespective of their religious and ethnic affiliations.
She identified some bottlenecks facing small businesses in the country to include,  lack of financial support from government and financial institutions.
Miss Ekpe stressed the need for government to create access to information for those wishing to go into small businesses, while  the process of securing loans from banks should be made less cumbersome.