Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN)

There is hope for Nigeria as great young minds came together to identify problems facing the nation and offer highly innovative solutions at STEM Careers Campaign (Science Technology Mathematic Engineering) held at National College, Gbagada, Thursday, 14 November 2015. The program is an initiative of Junior Achievement Nigeria in partnership with General Electric (GE). Ten Secondary schools across Lagos State were in attendance at the event and students were deployed into fifteen teams. They were advised to work as a team to create a unique name; decide on a problem to solve; brainstorm to create a PowerPoint presentation. Also present at the event were Mrs. Efua Edeh, (Executive Director, JAN), Mrs. Elizabeth Bintliff (President, JA Africa), Mrs. Chinwe Effiong (Fr. President JA Africa), JAN staff and GE Volunteers. After the illuminating series of presentations by the fifteen teams there were four winning teams and Team 2, "Creative SACE’s" emerged the winners...

This years Art Competition was success and the students performed well beyond our expectations considering the time restraints. This years theme was "Democracy in Nigeria."   Students from the following schools participated:  Corona Secondary School (Lekki & Victoria Island) Crescent School Herbert Macauley School Greenwood Springs School Twinkle Pearls School Kemfat School Amville School Kefat School Pampers Private School Adrao International Secondary School, Christland School Debiross School Mbari Mbayo School, Garland School   Sunnydale School The Brains School Caro Favored School The following judges presided over the Competition:   1. Mr. Ojo Olaniyi, Society of Nigerian Artists 2. Mr. Osho Adeleke, Artist 3. Mr. Doyin Oluwole, Principal Partner, Zek 3630 Limited.  A total of 51 (fifty-one) students participated in the ...

During JAN's 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 in order to reach out to 1 million youths by 2020, 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. The mobile app called JAN Career Cluster, which complements the Careers With a Purpose (CWAP) program, was also launched to help students plan their careers. We presently have the Android version on our website for download and also, the windows version in the windows store. The plan is to also have the IOS and Blackberry version.   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 th...