Nigeria’s Most Innovative Banking Service provider, Heritage Bank Plc, in its continued bid to support Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), has again empowered the winner of The Next Titan Season-7 with a whooping sum of N10million.
Joshua Joseph Idiong who is the CEO of Josult Oil Processing
Company, a palm oil processing company in Akwa Ibom State emerged the winner of
the Next Titan Season-7, themed: The Unstoppable.”
With a B.Sc in Environmental Sciences from the Federal
University of Technology Owerri, Imo State, Joshua Joseph Idiong emerged winner
after competing with Ifeanyi Nkwonta, Chidinma Eriobu and Ifeoma Benjamin at
the grand finale in which held in Lagos.
Idiong’s entry on the show was amongst the 18, 000 entries,
followed by online auditions before the top 16 moved into the Titan House for
10weeks to compete against top notch young entrepreneurs in real-life
entrepreneurial tasks.
Paneled by technocrats with perfect blend of entrepreneurial
requisite skills, the programme trained
each participant on enriching, rigorous and intellectually learning journey to
equip them with the fundamental competencies required of seasoned
entrepreneurs.
Frontline Panel of Judges from different spectrum of
entrepreneurial fields were on hand to impact knowledge on the participants and
they are from Kyari Bukar Co-Founder/CEO Trans-Sahara Investment; Lilian Olubi,
CEO, Primera Africa Securities Ltd; Chris Parkes, Chairman/CEO, CPMS Africa and
Tonye Cole, Co-Founder, Sahara Group.
The winner, who highly commended the headline sponsor-Heritage
Bank Plc for its continued supports to entrepreneurs and sponsorship of the
Next Titan, said, “Heritage Bank is an amazing bank that has stood strong on
this show. My love for Heritage Bank stems from the fact that this is my second
time on this show but before I came in, I have learnt so much from the show.
“This means that Heritage Bank is truly affecting the lives and
businesses of entrepreneurs positively, alongside the viewers. This is a bank
that has differentiated itself from other banks in boosting the strength of
SMES in Nigeria.”
Speaking at the grand finale, MD/CEO of the Bank, Ifie Sekibo
stated that the programme easily aligns with the primary focus of the
management of Heritage Bank to promote every laudable entrepreneurial idea
meant to broaden economic horizon of the country for the benefit of citizens
and other residents of Nigeria.
Sekibo who was represented by the Divisional Head, Corporate
Communications, Fela Ibidapo further affirmed, “as a catalytic institution in
the empowering of entrepreneurs in the micro, small and medium enterprises
(MSME) sector, Heritage Bank has continued to make relentless efforts in this
space to empower entrepreneurs in Nigeria through championing several
empowerment schemes like the HB Innovation Lab Accelerator programme (HB-LAB),
Ynspyre Account, Youth Innovative Entrepreneurship Development Programme
(YIEDP), Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL) on Young Entrepreneurship
Business Training Programme (YEBTP), Young Entrepreneurs and Students (YES)
Grant and Nigerian Youth Professional Forum (NYPF), Big Brother Nigeria, Lagos
Comic Con, amongst others.”
The Executive Producer of the entrepreneurial Reality Show, Mr.
Mide Kunle-Akinlaja in his address explained that the project was created and
designed as a deliberate attempt to provoke the spirit of entrepreneurship of
young Nigerians, not only the contestants on the show, but other multitude of
aspiring entrepreneurs who can watch the show on TV.
He said that the Season-7 was designed to search for business
ideas that are immune to any pandemic, innovations that break boundaries and
technologies that can survive any lockdown.
“It does not matter what your business idea is all about or its
focus, but you must be able to prove that your business has what it takes in
terms of ideas or technologies to survive any future pandemic or lockdown,” the
Next Titan Producer stated.
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