Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN)

MONOPOLY TOURNAMENT As part of our commitment to promoting personal financial literacy, Bestman Games in partnership with Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN) proudly present the City of Lagos Interschool Monopoly Tournament on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @ Terra Kulture Victoria Island Lagos. The event will teach children the values of investing, property trading, how to make wise financial decisions, lessons in strategy and most of all, good sportsmanship. The tournament involves private and public secondary schools in Lagos and there will be bankers from leading financial institution who will regulate the tournament as “Monopoly Bankers”. The winner of the final round will be crowned the  “ City of Lagos Monopoly Champion ”. This event promises to be a phenomenal one.       Stay connected to us via this blog: http://janigeria.blogspot.com ; follow us on twitter:   @JANigeria ;  join our group on   Facebook : volunteer  by visiting us at:  http://ja-nigeria.org/ge

The Company of the Year Competition is a program organized by the Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN) designed as a competitive exhibition session to introduce students to the dynamics of sales, packaging, presentation etc as a company. Actually this event is the climax of a sixteen week training and practice of entrepreneurship for the JA Company Program in the various schools. The JA Company Program (CP) is designed to practically inspire students on entrepreneurship for the world in front of them. Thirty(30) students   are selected from each school to form a company, the students will in turn chose a business name and elect a board to oversee the company`s affair for the next 16weeks. The officers include The Chairman of the board (President), the Head of Production, Marketing, Finance and Human resources. They are to start up a new company and raise capital by sales of shares, do market due diligence after which they decide on what to produce. After production they will decide on t

DMTP-Defining My Tomorrow Project is sponsored by NBC (Nigerian Bottling Company) in partnership with Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN) which is centered on providing   150 secondary school students from government schools the opportunity to learn about the various career options open to them and encourage them to develop interest about their career choice. Beyond this overarching objective is the need to inspire these children to begin to dream big and become change agents, in spite of the many challenges they face.   It includes a plant tour event which enables the students to have a hands-on experience on what the workplace entails. It is always a very interesting and wonderful experience for the students Two(2) DMTP events have been held in 2 different locations in Nigeria. The first was in Enugu with schools from within Enugu city. 150 students were selected to attend the career day, which was held as a one- day event on Friday, 24 th May 2013 at the Ivory hall of Dannic Hot

The students were divided into 14 teams and they all presented very innovative and mind-blowing ideas. Congratulations to all students who participated in the STEM event on the 20 th of November 2013. They are all winners. However, these 3 teams scored the highest marks.  Congratulations again to the following students and their schools: 1st place winners - TEAM One (Sochay) Odumogu Prosper        Government Science Secondary School Pyakasa, Abuja Felix Blessing                          Government Girls Secondary School Dutse, Abuja Mustapha Musa                      Government Secondary School, Gwarinpa, Abuja Ajao Abdur-Raqeeb                Government Day Secondary School Dutsen Alhaji, Abuja Abdul Azeez Isah                     Model Secondary School. Maitama, Abuja   2 nd place winners- TEAM Two (Brain Prodigies) Ani Haggi                               Government Science Secondary School, Pyakasa, Abuja Murthadha Asake                  Gover

The 2 nd Edition of the STEM(Science Technology Engineering and Maths) Innovation camp national competition organized by Junior Achievement Nigeria and Blackberry which held in Abuja on the 20 th of November 2013 was a successful and interesting event. The students were very creative in thinking and the volunteers were exceptional in mentoring the students. The students were given a business challenge: (Mobile Computing is a large part of day to day life.  Our Smartphones enable us to communicate with friends and family, do business, enjoy media, take photos, and make payments and much more.  As a team think innovatively about what else you might be able to use mobile computing for, what other service or solution might a mobile device be used for?) which they created a communication and sales plan in support of their innovative idea and then presented their business plan to a panel of judges. Please find below some pictures from the event      

The just concluded Venture in Enterprise (VIE) 2013 workshop organized by Junior Achievement Nigeria in partnership with EDC held at the Pan Atlantic University, Ahmed Onibudo Street, Victoria Island, Lagos was a mind blowing and interesting workshop. The workshop is definitely one that would still remain in the minds of the participants for a very long time. The workshop kicked off on the 11 th of November 2013 and concluded with a graduation ceremony on the 16 th of November 2013. Some Highlights of the workshop include; CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) event where the participants visited a secondary school to teach the students on the theme “INTEGRITY AND FAMILY VALUES”. There was a lot of the Interactive Session. Some courses treated include: “Crafting strategy that works”, “Health issues”, “Business Etiquette” and “Career Development”. Find below the CSR comments, Expectations and Workshop Comments of the participants from the workshop

The Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) Innovation Camp is an initiative developed through a partnership between Research in Motion (RIM) Blackberry and Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Europe – Europe’s largest provider of entrepreneurship education programmes. Nine JA-YE organizations from Italy, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Indonesia, India and United Kingdom are organizing the 2nd edition of STEM Innovation Camps.   The STEM Innovation Camp helps raise awareness amongst secondary school students aged 15-18, of STEM related issues, showcases excellent role models for the industry from Blackberry and leads the way to showing that skills-based CSR programs have a vital role to play in the future of education and aligning business needs with curriculums. The STEM Innovation Camp is a 12-h camp where students - with access to tools, experts and resources - come together in mixed teams and learn about how to generate and shape ideas

VIE, formerly Venture in Enterprise and Management (VIEMP) is a specially designed program offered by JA Nigeria to expose youth corps members to the responsibilities, opportunities and demands of a career in Enterprise and Management. The goal of the program is to train and empower youth corps members to assume their roles in the business world as managers and purpose-driven entrepreneurs Junior Achievement of Nigeria (JA Nigeria), a non-profit educational organization in partnership with Chevron Nigeria Limited, Pan-African University (EDC) and Accenture has concluded plans to host this year’s Venture in Enterprise (VIE). The weeklong program will include rigorous and stimulating classroom meetings (led by Enterprise Development Centre faculty), case studies, panel discussions, study groups, guest speakers and recreation, culminating in a strategy workshop, during which the participants will present solutions to different business problems. The learning environment will

Are you ready for the event of the year? The Run-A-Thon kicks off tomorrow at 7am with registration. Support our young leaders by signing up to participate in the race, the soccer tournament, music and refreshments. Individual participation cost N2,500 (two thousand five hundred naira)     Stay connected to us via this blog: http://janigeria.blogspot.com ; follow us on twitter:   @JANigeria ;  join our group on   Facebook : volunteer  by visiting us at:  http://ja-nigeria.org/get-involved/individual  

CBN Governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi talking to over 250 JA students in Model Secondary School Maitama Abuja today about money, savings & financial literacy. CBN officials with education ministry officials are present at this event.   Here are some of his words: "every child has a right to a bright future through financial literacy" "if you spend more than you earn you will become poor"   Sanusi Lamido Sanusi CBN Governor made this remarks @ Model Secondary School Maitama, Abuja Stay connected to us via this blog: http://janigeria.blogspot.com ; follow us on twitter:   @JANigeria ;  join our group on   Facebook : volunteer  by visiting us at:  http://ja-nigeria.org/get-involved/individual

Program Background Preamble Run-A-Thon is an annual fundraising event that will be held on October 19, 2013. The purpose of this event is to help fulfill Junior Achievement's mission to empower young people to own their economic success. Students of Junior Achievement, Board members, teachers, volunteers and the general public are invited to be involved with the fundraising activity and the event day which will include a fun run and soccer tournament. This year promises to be a successful event with your help. The Fund Raising Activity Private sector organizations, Schools, Individuals, other partners and the general public join Junior Achievement in raising funds to reach more children, especially the underserved. Junior Achievement will provide these individual(s)/corporate organizations pledge fund envelopes which they will use to raise funds. They often work in teams with a target amount which should be met within the assigned period. The funds raise

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.” ― Aristotle     Dignity is a term used to signify that a person has an innate right to be valued and receive ethical treatment. Dignity expresses your happiness and your strength. With a lack of dignity, a person would be weak and would not be able to stand up for himself, and therefore give up or give in to anything and anyone.   Dignity is a quality that each person is capable of having thus the mission of Global Dignity day is to implement the universal right of every human being to lead a dignified life. This day is a global demonstration of the inspirational and inclusive power of dignity . We all have the ability to increase the dignity of others and thus we increase our own dignity. The more dignity we have, the brighter our world will be.     The global dignity day is an invention of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway Professor Pekka Himanen of Finland and