Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN)

During the 15th Anniversary celebration, the Vice-chairman of JAN, Mr Niyi Yusuf, unveiled JAN's Technology Delivery Platform which constituted of an e-learning platform and a mobile app.   JAN believes that in order to reach out to 1 million youths by 2020 especially in the remote locations of the country there is a need to key into the use of Technology to enable people to learn anytime and anywhere through E-learning and mobile apps.   In light of this, JAN has launched its e-learning platform which helps students in both primary and secondary schools to study courses relating to Financial Literacy, Entrepreneurship and Work Readiness. The use of new multimedia technologies and the internet in learning is seen as a means to improve accessibility, efficiency and quality of learning by facilitating access to information resources and services as well as remote exchanges and collaboration.             ...

My Name Lanre Ojutalayo - I am going to tell you about the Venture in Management Program. It is a one week intensive mini MBA session to introduce fresh graduates who are members of the National youth serve corps to the different facets of managing businesses, making crucial business decisions and developing skills for management. The program is run by JAN in collaboration with LBS and Accenture and this year was sponsored by the ACA Foundation. I got involved when I saw an advert in the papers and applied. I was lucky to be shortlisted from 142 candidates and made it to the final 50 participants. The interview process was very tough to ensure that the calibre of students on the program were high and made me see what a real life interview would be like when I start interviewing for jobs.   During the programme I was involved in working on business case studies and rigorous management classroom tutorials facilitated by professors from Lagos Business School, Accenture and Afr...

A SPEECH PRESENTED BY MISS FATIMA YAKUBU THE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, THE AMAZING AMAZONS – A JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT STUDENTS’ COMPANY, GOVERNMENT GIRLS SECONDARY SCHOOL, ABAJI, ABUJA ON THE OCCASION OF THE 15 TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER ON THURSDAY 22 ND MAY, 2014 AT BALLROOM, LAGOS ORIENTAL HOTEL, VICTORIA ISLAND – LAGOS. Good evening. All protocols observed. My name is Fatima Yakubu, the president and chief executive officer of the Amazing Amazons of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Abaji, Abuja. I feel highly honored to be part of this epoch-making ceremony. I am particularly delighted to be part of the Junior Achievement Nigeria Family. I became a member of the family in December 2012 when my friend invited me to one of the programs of the Junior Achievement in my school. The program tagged “Career with a Purpose” turned out to be very interesting and resourceful. Since then it has been an amazing experience for me to be part of the family. Essentially, Junior Ach...

HSBC Holdings plc. and JA Worldwide ® are pleased to announce the Best Practice Winners across the six regions for HSBC/ JA More than Money ® , Year 5, 2012-2013. Year 5 marks the final year of this award . As i n previous years, each JA Organization presenting a winning application and their local HSBC office receive a Best Practice award. The winning applications have been added to the list of previous winners on https://www.juniorachievement.org/web/ja-more-than-money/awards .   Winners from the six regions are; ·          Africa Region, Nigeria: Financial Literacy Week with the theme JA More than Money ·          Americas Region, Mexico: Financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship conference for teachers ·          Asia/Pacific Region, Singapore: Recruit volunteers from parents and parents-to-be of schools to off...

Speech By Miss Keren-happuch Odinenu during JAN's 15th Anniversary Celebration.   "The most significant problems we face are not solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. Albert Einstein. Before I entered the JA club in my school my most significant problem was intimidation and inferiority complex. It was in this sad state that I joined the club in the year 2010. I and my fellow classmates saw it as a club for the popular kids and this formed the backbone for our enrollment. Little did we know that it was more than that. The club was to be run in the way an actual company is run.we were to embark on production, advertisement,sales, marketing. Name it. So it was not what I was expecting and I became absorbed in the hustle and bustle of the day neither contributing nor causing harm,just mainly fulfilling all righteousness. We had been told by the facilitators who often came to our school that we would participate in competitions. So we ...