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TEF2021: 10 Tips on How to Get Your Application to the Top 10% of All 2021 TEF Applications

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  If you are applying for the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Entrepreneurship program this year, then you must read this article to the end.  In the following paragraphs, I have outlined 10 tips I strongly believe will help you throughout the different stages on your way to access the $5000 grant from the TEF.  As you may already know, the TEF has significantly modified the process of accessing this grant. There are now 4 stages in the process; Application Stage, Training & Mentorship Stage, Business Plan Submission Stage, Pitching Stage, and Seed Capital Stage. Click here to read every detail about what to expect from the TEF 2021 edition. The information in this article will be very useful to you throughout this process, especially if you are successful in the application stage.   And if you are yet to submit your application for the TEF 2021, maybe because you are short in confidence, or you really don't have time to figure it all out,  get my ...

[FREE TRAINING] The 10x E-Commerce Blueprint

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Thank you for trusting me on this. Let's get straight to this... Now, this is the link to the Free training, 10X e-Commerce Blueprint presented by Jonathan Melody.  Click here to start your FREE TRAINING now You can also see the testimonials of other students who have gone through this training and put their knowledge to work using the 10x E-commerce Blueprint.  CLICK HERE TO SEE TESTIMONIALS  

How to Get A US Visa FAST-What I Discovered

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The Link To the Video Guide on how to obtain the US Visa Fast is here   In 2015 on my way to Lagos for a friend’s wedding, I was seated in a Toyota Siena with two guys, who were obviously heading to the US embassy for an interview.  And they were seriously lamenting about the difficulties in obtaining a US Visa.  Now even though it was a night journey, they were chatting all night.  I joined the conversation; well not because I knew a thing about getting a US Visa then, but because I was curious.  I wanted to know more about getting a US Visa, I might need one someday.  So from that day, I became very inquisitive about getting a US Visa. I read anything I can lay my hands on about US Visa online, including here on Nairaland.  I asked just anyone I hear traveled to the US. Some provided help, but many had no clue.  A few were just not ready to talk to a random guy like me.  But years went by, I didn’t get anything r...

How To Register A Business Name In Nigeria Within 24 Hours.

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How To Register A Business Name In Nigeria Within 24 Hours. When you are thinking about starting a business in Nigeria, you will have to consider whether to incorporate a company or to operate as a registered business name. This article is for individuals who are considering registering a business name. If you are interested in understanding the benefits of registering a business name, you may read our article The process to follow in order to register your business name at the Corporate Affairs Commission is pretty simple and can be completed from the comfort of your home, if you have what it takes. This is because; business registration can now be carried out online through dedicated websites by the CAC call Company Registration Portal (CRP). The steps to follow are: 1.      Search and reserve a name The first thing to do is to check the availability of the name you want to register and to reserve the name. You can do this through the portal, which in...

How To "Keep" Money Better in 2018

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It took me many years of frivolity to learn what I’m about to teach you in this post. Now you need to “Come closer” and pay serious attention to this.   Actually, this is not my first attempt to teach people how to save money or try to convince them on why they should save money. And over the last one year doing that, I have discovered that people have a lot of reasons why they won’t save money. “My take home is not sufficient to take me home” I have too many responsibilities; I can’t really afford to put away some money when I have need for them” “Actually I try, but I’m just not disciplined enough to keep money in the savings” “Never mind I will start saving next year… when I get a pay rise… when I graduate…” And a whole bunch of excuses like that.  Well, they say failures always have excuses, so no doubt. Well, if you are one of these people, this post is not for you, because I’m done convincing your kind to learn to save. This post will focus ...

Everything You Need to Know About the YouWiN! Connect Reloaded Online Training and Assessment

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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...

Tips On the YouWiN! Connect 2017 Online Training

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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 Y...