{"id":1000643,"date":"2026-08-14T17:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1000643\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:06:18","slug":"smedan-targets-100000-young-entrepreneurs-with-new-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1000643\/","title":{"rendered":"SMEDAN Targets 100,000 Young Entrepreneurs With New Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            August 14, 2026 1:04 pm\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                                    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SMEDAN_1782322846.webp\" alt=\"SMEDAN\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  class=\"post-image allure-optimized-img\"\/>                                                                     <\/p>\n<p>                                                                <b><a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/author\/damilola-aina\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Damilola Aina<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Damilola Aina is a journalist at Punch Newspapers with over five years of experience covering energy, business, investment, infrastructure, and property sectors. He specializes in producing well-researched and insightful reports that inform readers and provide clarity on complex topics. Damilola\u2019s work demonstrates practical newsroom experience, editorial insight, and a strong commitment to accurate and engaging journalism.<\/p>\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"http:\/\/punchng.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#50243835353439243f221020253e33383e377e333f3d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> [email\u00a0protected] <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 14, 2026 1:04 pm Damilola Aina Damilola Aina is a journalist at Punch Newspapers with over five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":891309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[275452,64,107240,4052,607,325559,39856,1219,356022,158164,67,132,68,44700,175876],"class_list":["post-1000643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-access-to-finance","tag-business","tag-business-support","tag-economic-growth","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-entrepreneurship-training","tag-job-creation","tag-nigeria","tag-sme-development","tag-smedan","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-youth-empowerment","tag-youth-entrepreneurship"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117094960858063324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}