A budding entrepreneur with unique
business idea of turning trashes into beautiful furniture, Mrs. Marvis
Marshal-Idio has won the Heritage Bank Plc’s sponsored entrepreneurial
competition show, ‘Next Titan Season 3.’
The star prize is N5 million from
Heritage Bank, which is the headline official sponsor of the competition
and a brand new car from Coscharis Motors.
The ‘Next Titan’ is Nigeria’s
entrepreneurial reality TV show, a brain child of Mide Kunle-Akinlaja,
where thousands of ambitious young entrepreneurs compete with one
another for a grand prize of N5 million and a brand new car to start his
or her dream business.
According to a statement, at the grand
finale held recently in Lagos, four finalists: Ronald Ajiboye, a first
class graduate of a Russian University; Marvis Marshal-Idio, who came
with a unique business idea of turning trashes into beautiful furniture;
Victoria Mamza, founder of Wangarau Foods and Sunday Ewolabi, founder
of Naija Peanuts competed for the star prize N5 million and a brand new
Ford Eco Sport.
The four finalists emerged from the top16
contestants with the brightest ideas that were shortlisted from 50
aspiring entrepreneurs that were selected from auditions held in Abuja,
Port-Harcourt and Lagos recently.
The 16 contestants lived together and
competed among themselves by carrying out weekly business tasks and
challenges around the city of Lagos for nine weeks on television and
with weekly evictions in the boardroom by the judges.
Divisional Head, Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSME) of the bank, Mrs. Ori Ogba, said Heritage Bank
sponsored the project because of its unrelenting desire to ignite the
entrepreneurial spirit in Nigerians, adding that the bank which is just
three years old started out by recognizing talents in Nigerian youths.
She said besides the ‘Next Titan’, the
bank was also working with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the
Nigeria Youth Service Corp (NYSC) on the Youth Innovative
Entrepreneurship Programme (YIEDP).
Marshal-Idio was quoted in the statement
as saying she was grateful and thankful to Heritage Bank for creating
the opportunity and giving hope to young Nigerian entrepreneurs to
compete and also for keying into the vision of the visioner, Mide
Kunle-Akinlaja. She also said that she was happy and grateful to the
judges for seeing into her hardwork and perseverance.
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