Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN)

 Junior Achievement Nigeria’s (JAN) annual flagship event The National Company of the Year Competition (NCOY) will be taking place Thursday 6 th   October, 2016  in Lagos.   JAN’s National Company of the Year Competition is an annual event that brings the JA Company Program winners of Regional Competitions across Nigeria together to compete for the National Company of the Year Award. JA Company Program teaches Senior Secondary students how to start and run their own business from inception to liquidation with the guidance of a volunteer.   They sell shares, raise start-up capital, pay dividends to shareholders and use 10% of their profit for a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity of their choice.   The 2016 NCOY winner will represent Nigeria against other JA Africa member-nation companies for the title of JA Africa Company of the Year in Zimbabwe this December.   At NCOY, JA student companies present the results of their enterprise before a panel of independent judges