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YouWiN! Connect BREAKING NEWS…. Online training and Assessment has resumed after YouWiN! Completes routine maintenance on the portal. After running the online training for about a 9 days, the YouWiN Connect team suspended the learning for One week (which is now being extended by a further one day) to carry out routine maintain ace on the portal. However yesterday, a day before the day they were supposed to open up the portal again, the sent out a tough message which suggested the real for the suspension wasn’t for routine maintenance after all but to curtail the excesses of some participants who took advantage of a loophole in the online training to commit fraudulent acts. The message read in full; Dear*********," , It has come to the attention of YouWiN! Connect that some participants of the Online Capacity building program are putting the integrity of the program at risk by fraudulently responding to assessment questions. Fraudulent participants have created

The online training aspect of the 2017 YouWiN! Connect programme has begun on the 5th of December, 2017. If you made it to the 2nd stage (online training) of the YouWiN! Connect 2017 programme, then note that the training has started. Participants have been receiving their login details to the learning portal since the 3rd of December, and many have gone far in their courses. Yet others are yet to start because they have encountered a number of challenges. These challenges and others are what I will be addressing in this post. Basically, whether you receive your login details on the 3rd of December or much later, everyone has 30 days to complete the online training. How the online course is structured  The online training is the basic requirement for progressing to the next stage of the competition. Fifty-five thousand (55000) applicants made it to this stage of the YouWiN! But after the training, only the best 5000 will be selected to move to the next stage. According to YouWi

Today, the Tony Elumelu Foundation; one of Africa’s most audacious projects supporting entrepreneurship, announced that on 1 st of January, 2018, it will begin accepting applications from outstanding African entrepreneurs who have a start-up or business ideas with high growth potential for the 4th cycle of the TEF entrepreneurship programme. The message read in full; "On 1st of January 2018, at 12am, WAT, we will begin accepting applications for the 4 th  cycle of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. Outstanding African entrepreneurs who have start-ups or business ideas with high-growth potential are encouraged to apply". The Programme is the Founder’s $100 million commitment to identify, train, mentor and fund 10,000 African entrepreneurs in 10 years; creating 1,000,000 jobs and $10 billion in social and economic wealth in the process. After three cycles, the Programme – the only African-funded business development initiative of its kind – has recei