THE NEXT TITAN MOVEMENT

 This NEXT TITAN Movement is the largest entrepreneurial movement. It is a reawakening of the entrepreneurial spirit. It’s for the youths, its for all of us. It shows on Channels TV (DSTV 254) Saturdays 8-9pm.  For Lagos residents, you can tune into On TV on Sundays  6-7pm. 

We have the privilege to get all the inside scoop of what's happening real time in the house and among housemates via social media and now here..

Read and give your sincere opinion and help the judges decide too.

Background

The Next Reality show is an entrepreneurial TV show. It was created with the aim of reawakening the entrepreneurial spirit in the Nigerian youth. The show started with 16 contestants who are split in two teams each week. These teams are then assigned tasks and are required to compete against each other.

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Task so far:

In the first task, the battle line was drawn: male versus females. Each team was given seed capital of N40,000 and asked to trade and bring back profit within a trading period of 48 hours. So guess who won?

Well, the girls reported a net profit of N70,000 while the guys reported a net profit of N200,000 (yes, two hundred thousand naira).

Try and guess what each team traded to make money?

Another task entailed business plan/feasibility study. This required us to exhibit skills of market research and data analysis, report writing and public presentation.

Our third task involved community service or an act of philanthropy. In the space of 72 hours, one team was able to raise drugs worth 2.2million naira for donation to kidney/renal dialysis patients, renovated toilets and give consumables to motherless babies home.

The second team focused on a single community. The Ikota community is a resettlement of about 50,000 people. These people are so poor and are unable to afford the basic amenities.  This team was able to drill a borehole within 24 hours and provide 5 taps for the community, convert the pit latrine to proper flushable toilets, and also provide a health care facility. The healthcare facility was a shipping container which was converted to a primary health facility and would be run by an already existing NGO in the area.

So if you were in the judges shoes, who do you think won? How do you decide between extending a life by 6 months through drugs and providing potable water? Well, all we can say is good luck to the judges for that task.

About the Housemates:

But if you think the housemates are all work and no play, you got it wrong big time.  

Andre’s birthday for instance was an eye opener. Who would have thought Tunji, CEO of wicked stones, our very own sweet and charming housemate would know how to go down low. He and Tobe Dadiva gave us some x-rated moments that even the producer of the show had to shield his cameras.

And then can you guess those who have been have a budding romance? I dare you.

Also, there is one Warri boy, Zion who likes to be known as Mc John de Baptist, the missionary comedian. This boy thinks he can convince Lola to come to Warri to meet his mommy. He keeps telling her she’s the only one that knows his mumu button. But people, ask Zion why he is keeping Tinu on pause...poor girl.

And let’s not forget, there are some people who trouble is their middle name. If you look at their faces, can you guess who?

Continue to see the tasks and more

Harriet Khataba – Launches HerStoryMatters.com in London

Her Story Matters Foundation, Harriet Khataba (Founder) has established an organization that is believed to become a meeting place for all women of indifference with www.HerStoryMatters.com (http://www.herstorymatters.com/) . Beginning this month, Harriet has officially opened the doors to an online venue that is created specifically to help women to tell their stories and to overcome their challenges. Harriet is well known in media as she is renowned for her strong stance about women and their place in the world.

Harriet is a profound example of how women of all upbringing and creed may find success in all they choose to achieve. She is currently the founder and chief operator of the "Her Story Matters" (HSM) and www.HerStoryMatters.com. Her Story Matters is an organization, founded by her to spotlight and support women from across the globe in an effort to provide awareness and support, allowing women to tell their stories and to emerge as stronger and more successful individuals. This effort would not be possible without the experiences provided to her throughout her life and career. She said, in a recent interview "I am from Kenya. As a child I saw firsthand how women were classified as less than men and allowed indifference to become oppression, without even understanding what is happening. I feel so strongly that all women across the world should unite to share and support one another in order to overcome these challenges. Now, Her Story Matters (dot) com is here to do just

that".

www.HerStoryMatters.com (http://www.herstorymatters.com/) is now standing by to promote global equality for women through Social Media, Crowdsourcing, Videos and other methods of public awareness, to serve as a testimony of success to all women to empower others online and through broadcasting; to raise awareness of common abuses in gender indifference in western; Eastern and other third world communities and tribes across the globe; to serve as a resource for all women seeking to overcome indifference from inequality, abuse, oppression and mistreatment; to become a marketplace leader for all things women through a  profit model of sales and affiliate ventures; to launch Her Story Matter syndication of media and online publishing; and to celebrate Her Story... because every story Matters.

To obtain more information about this topic or to schedule an interview, please contact:

Her Story Matters

Harriet Khataba

harrietkhataba@herstorymatters.com (mailto:harrietkhataba@herstorymatters.com)

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Chimamanda and "Americanah": an Interview

"Here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers," remarked Chinua Achebe upon reading Half of a Yellow Sun, a novel by a young, fellow Nigerian. And Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has made good on that early praise. The award-winning author of Purple Hibiscus and The Thing Around Your Neck—who was named on The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 Fiction list—has wasted no time in establishing herself as a leading light in today's globalized literary world. Now, with her latest novel, Americanah, a bighearted, nuanced take on love, immigration, and identity—set against sweeping social and political currents from Nigeria to America, from 9/11 to the age of Obama—Adichie has emerged as one of her generation's most important voices. Here she speaks with interviewer Anderson Tepper about history, home, fiction, and...hair.

Goodreads: Let's begin with the romance of Ifemelu and Obinze, two characters in Americanah who first meet as teenage classmates in Nigeria. Tell me what you were hoping to capture with their journey and what is perhaps unconventional about their particular love story.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: I think love stories are universal—I believe we humans all fundamentally need food and love—but what makes each love story interesting is specific detail. Their love story is about a particular slice of middle-class Nigerians, many of whom left the country during the military dictatorship. I also wanted to write about first love, how it can linger and endure. Theirs is a lush, unapologetically romantic story, but also practical—about a world where your ability to be with the person you love is affected by whether or not you get a visa, whether or not you can pay your rent.
GR: While Ifemelu is in the United States, she has a series of relationships that range across the social and racial spectrum—from Curt, the wealthy, footloose relative of the white family she's babysitting for, to Blaine, a politically conscious African American professor at Yale. What do these different men come to mean to her?
CNA: Both men make her grow, open her to experiences she would never otherwise have had. Curt makes her see a free-spirited privilege. Blaine's academic world is less free-spirited but no less eye-opening.
GR: Even Barack Obama, whose groundbreaking 2008 election campaign becomes a touchstone for both Ifemelu and Blaine, represents something important to her, if only an ideal.
CNA: Yes, as I think it did for many Americans. I very much wanted to try and capture the absurd euphoria that greeted Obama's first election, a euphoria I very much felt. I was not in the U.S. at the time, but I followed it very closely and was in tears. But when you sit back and think about it, why were we crying, really?
GR: Race is such a loaded subject in America. But for Ifemelu, her own blackness and its perception by others is something of a revelation. Tell me about her blog, "Raceteenth, or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black," and her unique approach to race.

CNA: In Nigeria race is not a conscious and present means of self-identification. Ethnicity is. Religion is. But not race. And so Ifemelu discovers, in America, that she is black. More than that, she discovers the negative assumptions that often accompany blackness. She also finds the awkwardness about race very funny. Most of all, she realizes that there is a lot people think but never say about the subject. So she decides to write this blog in very direct language, but also with humor, to lay bare some of the silliness and also to start conversations and bring about—hopefully—a better understanding. What is unique, if anything, is that she is writing as an outsider, a person who is black by American standards but who is not American and so has a relative privilege in being able to say certain things.
GR: When Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, she ultimately starts a new blog, "The Small Redemptions of Lagos." I believe at one time this was a possible title for the novel itself. What made you decide to call it "Americanah," which refers to so-called Americanized Nigerians?
CNA: "Americanah" was my original title. I liked the playfulness and irreverence of it. Then I changed it to what I thought was the more poetic "The Small Redemptions of Lagos"—until a good friend told me it sounded like the title of a small book sold under the bridge in Lagos.

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Vote @Chuksebuks for The NEXT TITAN Reality TV Show on Channels TV Nigeria

The NEXT TITAN an Entrepreneurship Reality TV show akin to Donald Trump's The Apprentice premiered last week on Channels TV, ONTv Lagos, GOtv and more.

It's on Channels 7pm every Saturday from this week and you have 16 contestants contending for N5Million naira, a car, Business support and lots more.

It is sure an interesting watch as you have Tonye Cole, Pat Utomi and 2 others as judges on the show. See more about the show when you click HERE

One contestant stands out for me though, and that's Chukwuebuka Anyaduba and I vote him all the way.

To vote for him (winks) here is how: (Did you notice he is the first on the contestants list above - let him remain so with your votes)

Just Text (TITAN CHUKS) to (33352) to keep him in, and be sure to watch him churn out his business skills.

FrontLine Media unveils 2013 MEDIA training plan

"I got really frustrated with the quality of productions on television here in Nigeria" and he thought to do something to correct that anomaly. The persona behind the scene of the Frontline Media Academy that has made media geniuses out of ordinary people is no other than Ikechi Ugwoeje.


  

Read more about how to be part of the July media training that will have Kemi Adetiba, Kelechi Amadi-Obi, Linus Okorie, Blossom Blcompere and great Nigerian facilitating when you Click here

In an Interview with Dayo, he spoke about what has kept him on and why Frontline media has remained on top of the chart


Reblogged from HERE

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President Obama dedicates the George Bush Library

President Obama joined all of his living predecessors on Thursday at a dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, at which the arguments of the past decade gave way, at least for a day: http://nyti.ms/13xxRRl
 

Photo: From left, President Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. (Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)

Source: Simon

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It's Stella's birthday today ....

Happy birthday Stella Damasus! Enjoy bliss...