KADSTEP

The Kaduna Start-up Entrepreneurship Program is a massive job creation campaigned initiated by a tripartite relationship, between the Kaduna state government, the Bank of Industry and Kaduna Business School.  The goal of the Kaduna Start-up Entrepreneurship Program is to engage about 5,000 eligible young men and women resident in the state to pursue productive enterprise development initiatives. The Kaduna Start-up Entrepreneurship Program is structured as a 10 + 2-week arrangement where qualified candidates go through a world-class programme equivalent to an entrepreneurship ‘diploma plus access to finance.  Initially, there is a 10-week intensive training, followed by grand examination which leads to a 2 – week access to finance training and accessing the loan.  The candidates are initially issued with an interim statement of result and subsequently will be issued with an Entrepreneurship Diploma after they run the business successfully for 18 months.