Tife who participated in the JA Company Program as president while at International School Lagos in 2010, was recently awarded the highly sought-after Chevening Scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in the United Kingdom. She is now at London School of Economics studying for a degree in Media, Communications, and
Archive for November, 2018
ED’s Letter
Dear Friends, We’ve had an exciting two months since schools resumed in September, so much so that we didn’t get the chance to write you last month! The month of September was spent preparing our RCOY winners from the last term for our flagship National Company of the
TEENS CODE – AFRICA CODE WEEK 2018
The Google-inspired Africa Code Week held successfully on Thursday, October 18, 2018, at Venture Gardens Group’s Vibranium Valley. It was exciting to participate in this year’s edition of the Africa Code Week for the first time, thanks to support from Google and Venture Gardens Group. Our students were taught Google’s
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT – Babajide Oluwase
A ViMP 2017 alumnus, Babajide Oluwase is the team lead of RenewDrive, an innovation-driven enterprise that develops and distributes clean and affordable energy solutions to cut down agricultural waste, improve livelihood, and combat climate change. Babajide was selected to participate in a global competition, ClimateLaunchpad, in connection with the Nigeria Climate
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT – Caleb Adebayo
Caleb is a lawyer who has interests in the nonprofit sector. He was a speaker at TEDxOAU in October 2018 where he spoke on ‘The Power of a Plastic Bottle’ and shared ideas on how plastic bottles could do as much as solve the problem of poor power supply in
PARTNERSHIPS THAT WORK – JAN AT EDU360: ‘INVESTING IN THE FUTURE’
JAN exhibited at the Union Bank’s innovative Edu360 educational fair which held on the 23rd and 24th of October at Harbor Point, Victoria Island. The fair featured educational institutions, parents, students, teachers, government and sector relevant agencies, as well as service providers. JAN was privileged to exhibit its program offerings
WORLD SAVINGS DAY – FSDH MERCHANT BANK STAFF TEACH JAN FINANCIAL LITERACY MODULE
October 31 is celebrated every year as World Savings Day – an annual celebration of the virtue of savings and thrift. This year, to celebrate World Savings Day, and as part of the follow-up to Financial Literacy Day celebrated in March, officials from FSDH Merchant Bank, Lagos was at St.
HACKATHON WINNERS MEET IN LAGOS TO KICK OFF PROJECT
We welcomed the winners of the JAN-TechQuest Hackathon to our Lagos offices last month to congratulate them, sign a memorandum of understanding and formally kick off their project. Ani Emmanuel and Ofoegbu Ugochukwu, under the name Team Wakanda, impressed the judges at the Nsukka competition and also went on to
TOTAL E&P STAFF TEACH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN LAGOS & PORT-HARCOURT
Total E & P Multipurpose Co-operative Society has sponsored the delivery of JA Our Nation and JA Be Entrepreneurial programs in primary and secondary schools in Lagos and Port Harcourt. JAN staff trained Total staff, who began their in-class delivery of both programs in September and concluded in October. JA
MEET OUR WINNERS – NCOY 2018 HIGHLIGHTS
The National Company of the Year (NCOY) competition is our flagship event and the culminating point for the implementation of the JA Company Program and accompanying regional competitions across Nigeria. Sponsored by FirstBank Nigeria this year, the competition held at Terra Kulture, Lagos on Thursday, October 4, 2018, with nine
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