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