Ultimate List: 40+ Awards & Business Plan Competitions for African Entrepreneurs

From students, startups, young and social entrepreneurs to small & medium and successful businesses, African and global organizations open business plan competitions and awards annually to support and encourage budding and successful entrepreneurs in Africa.

Whether you need funding to bring your bright idea to limelight or have made innovative progress as an entrepreneur in Africa and need a platform to demonstrate your achievements, there are opportunities out there.

Below is AfterSchoolAfrica list of 40 plus business plan competitions and awards for African entrepreneurs. Most of these programs are offered annually. Look out for the next application.

11 Prominent Politicians That Have Been Detained In Kuje Prison Under President Buhari

Hahahahahaha this story is an epic explanation of how it felt back then in secondary school when everyone wanted to be a bad boy and just be at the wrong side of the law, after all what would happen ? the highest is kneel-down there and go back to your class-room or better still pay your bail and continue

1. Umaru Fintiri - A Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the remand of a former Acting Governor of Adamawa State, Umaru Fintiri, in Kuje prison, Abuja, over five counts of money laundering charges involving about N1.9bn preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

It is a disgrace that states cannot pay salaries – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari says the inability of 27 state governments to pay monthly salaries of their workers is disgraceful to Nigeria.

President Buhari stated this in Abuja on Wednesday while addressing staff of the Presidential Villa.

He expressed dismay that in spite of the initial bailout funds given to some states, workers in those states were yet to receive their salaries.

“The matter that may shock you is that 27 out of the 36 states couldn’t pay salaries.

“This is a disgrace to Nigeria; it’s a disgrace. Up till now some of the states cannot pay salaries.

“What happened to all that we have been getting all this time?

PHOTOS: Mira Metha, Harvard Graduate Who Is A Tomato Farmer In Nigeria

I hope as many that are reading this especially those of us still in the tertiary level begin to understand that there is more to life than a white collar job, because this story inspired me on different levels.
Meet Mira Mehta; A young American lady & Havard graduate who is a tomato farmer in Nigeria.

She is a Havard Business school graduate who is passionate about entrepreneurship and has decided to pitch

Over 300,000 candidates apply for 750 EFCC work positions

Over 300,000 candidates applied for the 750 job positions advertised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The Director of Public Affairs of EFC, Mr Osita Nwaja, made the announcement in Enugu yesterday. Nwaja said that the recruitment was segmented and that the first phase of the recruitment exercise ended on June 26.

He said:

FG Cancels All Conducted Post-UTME, Orders Refunds To Candidates

The Federal Government of Nigeria has annulled all Post-UTME screening exercises that have been conducted by schools for 2016/2017 admission and has ordered fees paid by candidates to be refunded.

The FG had earlier announced the scrapping of the Post-UTME exercise starting from 2016/17 admission. However, a number of schools have changed the name to several ones as “admission screening”, “Admissions Intelligence Quotient Screening” and the likes.

It has been claimed that the reason and purposes of creating the Post-UTME have been defeated.

Recruitment: Police Websites Crash As 8,000 Applicants Register

I came across this sometime ago and i could not stop laffing cause it reminded me the struggle while we attempted to get bed space earlier this year........
Attempts by many candidates to apply for enlistment into the Nigeria Police Force were frustrated on Friday as the two police portals for the recruitment crashed and were inaccessible for most part of the day.

The Police Service Commission had directed interested candidates to apply through its website,www.psc.gov.ngor that of the Nigeria Police Force, www.npf.gov.ng, but the two websites crashed due to huge traffic.

It was gathered that many candidates could not apply online at different cyber cafés and had to go back home in frustration.

Attempts by our correspondents to access the websites between 2pm and 6pm were abortive as the PSC website simply said, “This Account has been suspended. Contact your hosting provider for more information.”

The police website

Mark Zuckerberg: 'Entrepreneurship Is About Creating Change, Not Just Creating Companies

Amidst international upheaval in the wake of the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union, President Barack Obama spent the day at Stanford University praising the entrepreneurial community at the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit alongside Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

"The world needs your creativity and your energy and your vision," he said in his opening remarks. "You're going to be what helps this process of global integration work in a way that works for everyone and not just some. I believe we are better off in a world where we are trading and networking and communicating and sharing ideas. That also means that cultures are colliding and sometimes that's disruptive and people get worried. You're the bridge. You're the glue."