Be Your Own Boss (Entrepreneur Movement)

     The google hash code challenge is a programming competition organized by google for students and industry professionals across Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Since it is team based, you get to pick your team and programming language while Google picks a real life engineering problem for you and your teammates to solve. image source: clickinfo.com.ng

     The Tony Elumelu Foundation has started accepting applications from African entrepreneurs with innovative ideas that can transform the continent.  The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2010 by Nigerian businessman, Tony Elumelu,  with the sole aim of promoting excellence in business leadership and entrepreneurship across Africa. image source: pulse.ng

     The Google Online Marketing Challenge provides a platform for students to experience as well as create online marketing campaigns using Google Adwords.  In the past 9 years, a plethora of students and professors from at least 100 countries have participated. The challenge is open to student teams of a minimum of three and a maximum of six members from undergraduate or graduate programs, irrespective of their major. image source: tarcsoft.com

     The World Photography Organization in partnership with ZEISS have announced the commencement of the second edition of the ZEISS Photography Award 'Seeing Beyond', with the theme "Meaningful Places". ZEISS started this competition to challenge photographers the world over to " look beyond the ordinary and capture the extraordinary things that exist in the world we live in, by documenting the importance of one or several places that bear significance to each other" . source: lensipre.zeiss.com

     A skill that is of utmost importance to entrepreneurs nowadays is the ability to understand the times, to know what ideas will make profit at any point in time. 2016 was a year of relative hardship (not so relative to some people though) for a vast majority of Nigerians. The Nigerian Naira was on a free fall, oil prices did not want to feel left out so it fell too, and then there's MMM that I dont even feel like talking about.  It is everyone's hope that 2017 will be much better than 2016. While we are hoping, here are some ideas you can consider. source: businessnewsdaily.com