A chance to win 2,000,000 naira, as I-startup application program kicks off in South-West.

I-startup Southwest is a Federal Government intervention of the National Social Investment Program (NSIP) under the office the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

This program provides an opportunity for innovative and dedicated teams who have viable ideas and solutions in Manufacturing, ICT, Agriculture, Health and Governance to redefine their product/solution, achieve product-market fit, and acquire new customers (including corporates) and investment.

Premier Hub Innovation Center is a South-West regional innovation center located in Ondo state, Nigeria. Premier Hub exists to fast track industrialization in Nigeria by creating an enabling environment and empowering youths who are leveraging technology to build ideas into sustainable solutions.

This is done through trainings, incubation and acceleration programs.

Programme Aims and Objectives

The aim is to impact the Nigerian Economy to become a knowledgeable driven/smart economy, capable of rapidly accelerating industrialization by training and serving talent acceleration points for young Nigerians in technology driven sectors of the economy, including Digital and innovative solutions, Professional services, Manufacturing and Agro-allied Technologies.

The Programmes Missions

The missions include:

To discover and establish successful entrepreneur.
To Accelerate innovative ideas
To discover challenges and solutions in our focus areas.
Training and mentorship of youths
Partnering with parties who have similar goals

Area of Focus

Agriculture
Manufacturing
ICT
Digital oil field

Eligibility Criteria

Any individual or early stage startup who has an idea, solution or product in Agriculture, Manufacturing, ICT, Digital Oil field, Governance or Health.

Business must be for profit

Your state of residence or startup must be located in any of these states within the Southwest region: Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Osun, Lagos and Ekiti

Other Geopolitical zones will be opened later. Subscribe to know when others start

The competition is open to the South West region for now, please stay tuned for updates on other regions.

Npower beneficiaries and beneficiaries of other social schemes eligible to apply

Benefits

The Programme provides critical tools for entrepreneurial success, including:

Training: weeks of intensive training on setting-up and managing businesses

Mentorship and Advisory: Hands-on support: Business strategy, financial management, recruitment, product development (advisory)

Free work space for team members, high speed internet & more.

Seed Capital: non-returnable seed capital

Method of Application

Visit NSIP Premier Hub Innovation Center

Click on Apply Now

Proceed to the form and fill all the information required

Submit and print confirmation slip.

Be on the lookout for email/SMS message for the next stage

Supports and Enquiries

Premier Hub Innovation Center

Plot 7, Block O, Ilesha-Owo Express Way, Near A&T Presidential Hotel, Oloko/Orita Obelle Junction, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria.

(+234) 815 932 7325

hello@premierhub.com.ng

Most-watched soccer games on US TV for April 3-8, 2018

Saturday’s Manchester Derby set a record for Premier League viewership in the United States with a total of 1.659 million people tuning their television to the match broadcast on NBC and Telemundo combined. NBC delivered 1.35 million viewers, its highest viewership for a Premier League match since Liverpool took on Man City on New Year’s Eve 2016. Telemundo delivered an additional 309,000 viewers for its Spanish-language broadcast. This ranks as just the fifth largest audience for Telemundo this season with December 10’s Manchester Derby drawing 495,000 viewers to the network. The United States Women’s National Team 6-2 defeat of Mexico averaged 627,000 viewers on the FOX network Sunday afternoon, making it FOX’s most-viewed match of 2018 thus far. Viewership was down 13.87% however from their previous appearance on the FOX network back in March 2017 when they faced England before an audience 728,000. Zlatan’s second MLS appearance delivered FOX Sports 1 ...

Yakubu Dogara congratulates wife, Gimbiya, as she is a year older

Speaker of the house, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has congratulated his wife, Gimbiya, as she is a year older and the speaker has taken his time to shower some accolades on her. Dogara said"Happy birthday to Virtuous woman, the rock of my family and the love of my life. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself as you continue to flourish like a palm tree bearing fruits in season and out of season." The wife of Bukola Saraki, Toyin Saraki, also congratulated Dogara's wife on her twitter account. She (Toyin) said"Happy Birthday to my dear sister, Mrs. Gimbiya- blessed to know you, even more blessed by your friendship. May all your years be blessed. Happy Eld too! Amen!

Job alert: Vacancy For A Senior Registrar At Careclick Technologies.

Careclick continues to pioneer and provide a whole range of Telehealth equipment and technologies that provide consultation and support our subscribers all through their entire patient experience including applications, devices, carts, kiosks and other specialized innovative medical devices. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title : Senior Registrar Location : Lagos preferred but not subject to location. Job type : Contract Job Descriptions • A Digital Healthcare company is looking for Senior Registrars in any specialty in Medicine from an accredited health institution. • Basically, the job will be to offer clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic advice and consultations through our Online Medical Platform for non-emergency health conditions in line with their specialty of residency. Requirements • Part 1 Fellowship is required. • Must be highly skilled, must have compl...

Gistyoublog

Search This Blog