The Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the payment of N30,000 as monthly stipend to Ready.Set.Work, RSW, volunteers who have been placed on intenship in various organisations for six months.

He also gave nod to the setting apart of N8 million in seed funding for the top five winners of the RSW Business Pitch Competition, whose businesses will be placed in incubation.

The Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Obafela Bank-Olemoh, in a statement issued on Sunday, said the beneficiaries will commence their internship and incubation, respectively, on March 1.

He explained that the interns were part of the 2,000 final year students from six tertiary institutions in the state who took part in the 2017 edition of the 13-week intensive entrepreneurship and employability training programme.

Bank-Olemoh disclosed that the Ready.Set.Work programme, which held its pilot in 2016, with 500 final year students from three tertiary institutions in the state, was scaled up in 2017 to 12,000 students from six institutions, including Lagos State University, University of Lagos, Lagos State Polytechnic, Lagos State College of Health Technology, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education and Michael Otedola College of Primary Education.

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