The British Council, alongside Virgin
Atlantic Airways and Zenith Bank, has rewarded two Nigerian youths who
excelled in an enterprise challenge.
The beneficiaries are an award-winning
female fashion entrepreneur, Eseoghene Odiet, and a creative technology
postgraduate degree holder from the Middlesex University, London, Nasir
Yammama.
They received N1.5m each. Besides, they
participated in a-five-day business training at the Branson Centre for
Entrepreneurship in South Africa.
As part of incentives for the
accomplishment, they are to meet with one of United Kingdom’s foremost
entrepreneurs and Chairman of the Virgin Group, Richard Branson, for
mentoring.
The challenge, an online competition,
seeks to give young, brilliant entrepreneurial minds the opportunity to
develop their creative skills and bring such ideas to the fore for
future development.
According to the British Council
Director of Programmes, Louisa Waddingham, Odiet and Yammama were among
the 10 Nigerians who participated in the competition.
Waddingham made this known at a cheque presentation ceremony in Lagos.
The council’s Regional Manager,
Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, Adetomi Soyinka, in his
remarks on the occasion, listed the attributes of a good entrepreneur.
He identified such features to include
hard work, self-confidence, being goal-oriented, persistence, commitment
and a good demonstration of initiative.
These attributes, Soyinka said, were some of the points the judges looked out for while selecting the winners.
Meanwhile, the council and its programme
partners have committed to run another cycle of the competition in
second quarter of 2015.
This year’s competition will be open to candidates aged between 18 and 35 years.
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