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The Office of the Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation and Youth Employment and Coordinating Office for the Npower has announced that the list of preselected candidates for the 2017 Npower programme will be released in November. Even though Mr. Afolabi Imokhuede had on a Facebook live chat in September, promised that the list will be released in October,  there appears to be a change of arrangement as he shared a contrary information while on a Channels TV live breakfast show; Sunrise Daily of Monday, 23 rd of October, 2017. In his words; “As we speak now, the first 200,000 are in their 11th month because they started December 2016 and they are volunteering their time in our public primary schools across all the 774 local governments in Nigeria, in our primary health centers and also in our Agric-development programme,” he added. Mr. Imokhuede hinted further that government plans to announce the second phase of the programme which targets 300,000 yout

Facebook is the world’s largest social network and connects over 2 billion people monthly. As part of its mission to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together, it connects people on the platform with over 70 million businesses. Facebook not only helps businesses get discovered and find customers but also helps people develop connections to products and causes. To better support cause-driven businesses, Facebook has partnered with One Young World to launch the Facebook Social Entrepreneurship Award. On 5 October at the One Young World 2017 Summit in Bogotá, Colombia, Facebook’s VP of Global Marketing Solutions, Carolyn Everson, announced the Facebook Social Entrepreneurship Award and officially announced the opening of applications for One Young World Ambassadors to apply. In line with the company’s mission, the award will present a prize to 4 teams or individual social entrepreneurs with advertising credits and Facebook mentors who will share ma

Opportunities are missed by many because they are dressed as work. This is a popular saying and nothing makes this truer than the opportunities I see available through the N-power programme. And that is the reason I have taken the pains to put together this E-book. I consider this a must-have handbook for every N-power volunteer who wishes to get the best out of the programme. Five important ideas where unraveled in this e-book; How to make the best use of the specialized technical training from the programme  How to put the N-power devices to the best personal use, Strategies to adopt, to make the best of the place of primary assignment (PPA) to enhance career growth, How to leverage the monthly stipend to lay a solid financial foundation through prudent savings and wise investments And finally how to get the best from a potential network of this 500,000 young Nigerians. I have no doubts that you will find this book very captivating and interesting and I hope it

YouWiN Connect Online Training, what participants must know If you have just been shortlisted for the next stage of the YouWiN! Connect 2017, I want to congratulate you once more. I am sure one of the things topmost in your minds right now amidst the joys of being successful in this stage is "what would the online training look like? never mind, I have a solution for you. This is probably the first time the YouWiN is adopting an online training method, but it certainly isn't the first time online training is being used to train entrepreneurs in Nigeria. But never mind I got you covered on this one.  Here is what to expect in the upcoming online training;  (NOTE: These are not official information or instructions from the YouWiN Connect team. They are only my opinion based on the previous competitive online training I have been involved in and online courses I have taken. Consider these as some intelligent guess from an experience) 1. The training will be

YouWiN! Connect 2017, what participants need to know Congratulations and welcome to the next stage of the YouWiN! Connect 2017. YouWiN! Stands for Youth Enterprise With Innovation in Nigeria, a federal government project started in 2011 by the then federal government of Nigeria under President Jonathan. The programme gave a grant of between 1 million to 10 million naira each to 1200 youth enterprises (existing and new) every year from 2012 to and 2014. But the programme was rebranded and re-organized to YouWiN! Connect in 2016 by the current President Buhari-led administration, to a multi-media  However, it is not yet clear to many applicants what this re-branded programme will offer them and how exactly it will run.  This article is an attempt to answer some of these questions in the minds of applicants especially those that have been shortlisted into the next stage of the competition.  First; according to information from the YouWiN! Connect team, the programme wo

The list of successful applicants for the YouWinConnect  2017 has been released. According to information on the email sent to successful applicants, online training which would further sharpen their entrepreneurial skills and prepare them for a business plan would commence in the coming week. Here is a copy of the email sent to successful applicants. Dear "*******" , Following a rigorous evaluation process, your business application has been selected to advance to the second stage of the Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWiN!) Connect Program. During the second stage of the program, you are required to do the following: 1. Attend an Online training You will be required to attend an online training that will further improve your basic business skills and prepare you to develop the detailed business plan. Training will commence within the coming weeks. We will send you an email with specific details of how to go about the online trainin

   There are a number of mistakes that people make when trying to save and invest, which lead to their failure to achieve financial freedom. Here are a number of such mistakes and how you can avoid them. Savings & Investment Mistake #1 To put all your savings in your first investment . This is a very common investment mistake and it leads to capital burnout in the case of business failure or slow returns. You can avoid this mistake by investing only a maximum of 50% of your savings in any new venture. As much as this will affect your potential earning power and profit margin in the case the investment is successful, it will enable you to have some capital to start again in the case that the investment fails. Savings & Investment Mistake #2 To stop saving after investing, with the hope that their investments alone will give them financial freedom . But then they would have nothing to hold onto and would return to square zero should the investment fail. To av

CBN Governor, Godwin Emiefele The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele, on Friday explained how President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise to provide 360,000 jobs for youths nationwide, will be actualized. Emefiele told stakeholders at a meeting on the operational framework for the Accelerated Agricultural Development Scheme (AADS), under which the jobs will be created that the scheme was targeted primarily at unemployed youths between the a ges of 18 and 35. The CBN governor said through the scheme, a minimum of 10,000 youths in each state, willing to engage in sustainable and profitable activities along the agriculture value chain, would be employed and trained. “I believe we are on the verge of something very significant with the AADS. “This scheme has been designed to create an ecosystem with the active participation of the public sector, state governments, and the private sector,’’ he said. Emefiele said the objectives of AADS included the creation