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5 Must-Haves For Thriving Startups 0
- Companies
- July 7, 2014
ENTERPRISE54 – At the agency we talk all the time about new businesses, the pros and cons involved with start-ups, the next big thing or things even close. We sit to analyse new start-ups such as Coursera, Nextspeel, I-GASP and Numbers. We discuss the things that make them all so acceptable, presentable and almost so workable without completely ignoring
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UNICEF, Barclays Partner To Convert 74,000 African Youths to Entrepreneurs 0
- Agribusiness
- July 7, 2014
ENTERPRISE54 – The African continent is booming with entrepreneurs starting businesses of every size and type. At a roundtable discussion held by the Guardian and sponsored by Barclays, senior representatives of business, academia, NGOs and the financial sector discussed entrepreneurship in Africa and the challenges many young entrepreneurs face. The lack of livelihoods for young people in
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First Bank Disburses $283 million To Nigerian SMEs 0
- Money
- July 7, 2014
ENTERPRISE54 – Gbenga Shobo, an official of one of the top 3 leading banks in Nigeria First Bank, has disclosed the lender released about N46bn ($283m) to Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in the country within the last 12 months. With the establishment of a N220bn ($1.35bn) intervention fund by the federal government due
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Free Entrepreneurship Workshop: Fundamentals of Business Start-Up and Administration 0
- Agribusiness
- July 5, 2014
ENTERPRISE54 – Enterprising Nigeria, an entrepreneurship development organization founded by Dele Makinde is hosting a 4-week intensive training and mentorship program tagged “Fundamentals of Business Start-Ups and Administration.” Sterling entrepreneurs such as Toyota Nigeria MD Demola Ade Ojo and the creative force behind Sixth Sense Interior Temitope Olagbegi would be present to groom mentees. The
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World Bank Moves On Entrepreneurship Education and Training In Africa 0
- Agribusiness
- July 5, 2014
ENTREPRISE54 – A new World Bank report has identified entrepreneurship education and training as a catalyst that could stimulate innovation and generate jobs among university graduates, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where graduate unemployment rates are high. The burning question is whether entrepreneurship can actually be taught.The report, Entrepreneurship Education and Training: Insights from Ghana, Kenya, and Mozambique,
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Nigerian Clinches British Council Innovation Prize, Mentorship With Richard Branson 0
- Agribusiness
- July 4, 2014
ENTERPRISE54 – Mr Nasir Yammama, a Nigerian postgraduate student of Creative Technology at Middlesex University UK, has emerged winner of the 2014 British Council Enterprise Challenge competition out of over 2,000 contestants with hisknowledge sharing farming mobile application. Nasir who currently lives in London where he is Lead IT and Creative officer for Greenshield of
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