1,000 Nigerians Empowered With Business Grants and Scholarships

The Okpeyo Temile Foundation (OTF) has successfully empowered 1,000 individuals through business grants and scholarships in its maiden OTF 2025 Empowerment Scheme.

In a chat with Warri Sentinel on Saturday, March 1, Omasan Eyikimiaghan, Project Coordinator, confirmed the distribution of support across several regions of Nigeria.

“OTF is about giving back to the society, we want to focus on programs geared towards developing our indigenous talents through education and entrepreneurial development with the hopes that this will, in turn, develop our local communities,” she remarked.

The beneficiaries were selected based on four key categories:

-Academic and Advanced Skills Development Program (AASDP)
-Business Support Grant (BSG)
-Aspiring Entrepreneurs Program (AEP)
-Sustenance Support Living Program (SSLP)

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Under the AASDP, recipients received 250,000 Naira per academic session until their graduation. Meanwhile, the BSG category offered a one-off grant of 300,000 Naira to selected individuals.

Those selected for the AEP were awarded one-off grants based on their business plans, with amounts starting from 1 million Naira. The SSLP, designed to support the elderly and disabled, provided benefiaries with 50,000 Naira monthly each for six months.

Many beneficiaries have taken to social media to express their gratitude for the initiative.

The program which opened for entries and was widely publicized in the media in October, 2024 was indeed a promise kept.

The Foundation, an initiative of Alfred Temile, an international oil mogul from Warri, aims to alleviate the challenges posed by Nigeria’s current economic situation and also as a channel of giving back to the society.