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Enterprise Challenge winners get prizes from British Council, others

By Ujunwa Atueyi
11 February 2015   |   11:00 pm
THE British Council, in partnership with Virgin Atlantic Airways and Zenith Bank, have formally presented a cash prize of N1.5m each to the duo of Eseoghene Ise Odiete and Nasir Yammama who emerged winners of the Enterprise Challenge Competition.   In 2014, the programme partners launched the maiden edition of the online competition tagged “Enterprise…

THE British Council, in partnership with Virgin Atlantic Airways and Zenith Bank, have formally presented a cash prize of N1.5m each to the duo of Eseoghene Ise Odiete and Nasir Yammama who emerged winners of the Enterprise Challenge Competition.

  In 2014, the programme partners launched the maiden edition of the online competition tagged “Enterprise Challenge,” which is aimed at providing a platform for young, brilliant entrepreneurial minds to bring their innovative ideas to the fore for possible future development.

  Odiete, 25 year-old award winning female fashion entrepreneur and the brain behind Hesey Designs, went home with a cheque of N1.5m for her ingenuity with African accessories. She is an indigene of Delta State.

  Yammama, who is an indigene of Katsina State, also went home with N1.5m, with his invention, a farming support application that can help farmers with information about weather and how to take care of their farmlands. He hopes to launch the agricultural mobile application before the end of the year.   

  Other prizes won by the top two include, a five-day entrepreneurship foundation course at the Branson Centre for Entrepreneurship in South Africa, where they were mentored by one United Kingdom’s foremost entrepreneurs and Chairman of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson.

   The cash prize is to be used to either support an already existing business or develop a business idea. 

  It would be recalled that a total of 10 finalists (Nigerians based in the UK and at home) out of over 2,000 applicants, battled for the top two spots last year, in which Odiete and Yammama emerged winners. 

  In their continued commitment to the development of Nigerian youths, the programme partners have committed to run another cycle of the competition in the second quarter of 2015.

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