Government Girls’ Secondary School, Abaji has earned the ticket to represent Nigeria at the 2014 African Company of the Year Competition scheduled to take place in Harare, Zimbabwe in December.
This was due to their superlative performance which placed them at the number one position at the just concluded 2014 National Junior Achievement Company of the year competition, held in Victoria Island, Lagos.
The competition put together by Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN) with the support of First Bank and SAP company brought together Regional Finalists of Junior Achievement programme from Lagos, Rivers, Enugu and the Federal Capital Territory.
A statement signed by Ngozi Dike, the press officer of the FCT Agency for Science and Technology said the FCT Team which was led by the Head, Entrepreneurship/ Business Development Unit of the Department of Science and Technology, Muhammed Ibn Saheeb also bagged the special award on Corporate Social Responsibility for using 10 per cent of their business profit to provide scholarship for two indigent pupils – one in primary and the other in secondary school, and also training some Almajiri women in purse and bag making, using local resources.
In her congratulatory message, the Director of the Department of Science and Technology, Mrs Rosemary Umana, expressed satisfaction with the students’ impressive performance, while urging the young entrepreneurs to come back with the trophy from Zimbabwe and become the agents of change for Nigeria.
The competition also featured a Trade Fair where competitors took turn to unravel their entrepreneurial products, quality control, marketing strategies and products’ objectives.
