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| The Youths. |
In a bid to improve and position Nigeria’s young entrepreneurs among the world’s best young and innovative entrepreneurs, Junior Chambers International, Nigeria has announced the Creative Young Entrepreneur Award to young entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
JCI Nigeria is a part of Junior
Chamber International, a worldwide community of young enterprising leaders
between the ages of 18-40 and positioned to provide development opportunities
that empower young people to create positive change.
The Creative Young Entrepreneur
Award was launched in 2021 to challenge young entrepreneurs to critically and
creatively provide in-depth business models, marketing positions, and
strategic goals on how their ventures should earn profit and become
sustainable.
Speaking on the initiative,
Creative Young Entrepreneur Chair (CYE), Idara Michael explained that the
initiative is open to all residents of Nigeria between the ages of 18 and 40 and
anyone can nominate an entrepreneur as young entrepreneurs are encouraged to
apply themselves.”
According to Idara, CYE is the
first step to becoming the 2022 World Creative Young Entrepreneur Award winner,
and believes there are outstanding candidates for the award in the country
“We hope that these creative
and talented young business owners and entrepreneurs come forward to be
recognized through the competition, with the potential of moving on to the
global stage to be honoured”, she said.
In his remark, JCI National
President, Wale Bakare noted that the award is geared towards business people
who use imagination and creativity in their business enterprise.
“It could be any number of things,
including using creativity in product development, service development, or even
in the way they approach the market. The key is how they have tackled something
in a fresh way, using their talents, imagination and ingenuity to drive their
business”, he added.
Also giving additional details
about the entry process, the Immediate National President, Abiola Olorunnishola
further explained that the entry process involves the simple completion of an
online application form and from those entries a panel of experts drawn from
within the local economic and entrepreneurial community and select 10 finalists
to move onward to the International Competition representing Nigeria.
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