Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN)

  Junior Achievement Company Program impacts more than 380,000 young people a year globally. The program teaches senior secondary level students how to start and run their own business; develop a product/service, and market it with the support of a volunteer trained by JAN. Volunteers are crucial to the success of this program as they serve as business advisors to students. The 2015 Edition of Company Program was sponsored by The Abraaj Group and Citi Foundation. Students are selected to form a company, chose a business name and elect a board to oversee the company for the program duration. The offices include: The Chairman of the Board (President//CEO), Director of Production, Marketing, Finance and Human resources. They create a company; raise capital by sales of shares; decide on what to produce; the market to sell their products; pay dividends to investors and use about 10 percent (10%) of their profit for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity of their choice. ...

Ms. Abimbola Onyeji, Head of Treasury, Kakawa Discount House, presenting a student a gift for the correct answer during Q& A session Mr. Oluwadamilola Adenusi, Program Supervisor, Junior Achievement Nigeria with students during FLD presentation by Kakawa Discount House at Green Park Academy, Benin City, Benin.  Mr. Oluwadamilola   Adenusi, Program Supervisor, Junior Achievement Nigeria; Elder H. Uwaifo, Principal Green Park Academy; Yetunde Odedokun, Credit Analyst, Kakawa Discount House.      Kakawa Discount House; Green Park Academy Staff and students & Mr. Oluwadamilola Adenusi, Program Supervisor, Junior Achievement Nigeria after a great FLD presentation.   Fidelity Bank Representative, Mr.Chris Nnakwe, Head of CSR, Fidelity Bank giving his FLD presentation to Waterman Day College, Abeokuta City, Abeokuta, Nigeria .   Fidelity Bank Representative, Mr.Chris Nnakwe, Head of CSR, with Fidelity Bank studen...

This year’s Financial Literacy Day was a great success. JAN in partnership with the bankers committee celebrated GMW in 24 schools across the country reaching 3948 students with the JAN module “Growing Your Money” in line with the 2015 GMW Theme: “Save Today, Safe Tomorrow”. Our Lagos office was able to secure Radio coverage on four national stations; TV coverage on TVC News and national print coverage. FLD TV Coverage Press: https://youtu.be/SnjTPSVhBXs    Several banks also included a presentation on the products that they offer to young students that could help them take advantage of “Growing your money”. The program concluded with Q&A and commentaries from students and teachers. All Banks distributed souvenirs and provided refreshments to all the students: Junior Achievement Nigeria’s Role in coordinating Financial Literacy Day across Nigeria •       Secondary schools (both public and private) were selected by JAN across the s...