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The Next Titan Nigeria searches for aspiring entrepreneurs in 7th edition

The Next Titan Nigeria searches for aspiring entrepreneurs in 7th edition

The Next Titan, Nigeria’s foremost entrepreneurial reality show, is back and bigger for the 7th season, scouting for ambitious entrepreneurs whose business ideas are outstanding and unstoppable by any pandemic or lockdown.

The contestants will live together for 10 weeks in the same house, and battle one another over 10 tough business tasks by demonstrating their entrepreneurial acumen with outstanding business ideas, commercial insight and business savvy to stay out of eviction to win the grand prize of N10,000,000 for the support of their business idea or existing business.

Prior to the pandemic, the process starts by allowing the contestants to pitch their business ideas through auditions at different zones in Nigeria. But this year, due to the “COVID 19”, the audition will be held online. All you need do is, log into the website, fill the form and upload a two minutes’ video talking about your business idea.

After the auditions, Top 50 contestants would be selected for the Top 50 Online Boot Camp, where they would go through series of tests and challenges till the final 16 with the brightest ideas are shortlisted to move into the main stage, “Titan Mansion” to compete by carrying out weekly business activities for 10 weeks on television. The contestants would be coached by top Nigerian business leaders who would take advantage of their position as judges to mentor the contestants and millions of viewers around the world.

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Each week, the budding entrepreneurs will be divided into two teams to tackle a business task- led by their supervisors. After completing each task, both teams return to the weekly boardroom to discuss their experiences and give their report before the board of judges. In the boardroom, a team will be declared a winner or a loser.

The winners will be rewarded with a treat while the losing team will nominate some of their colleagues for eviction, and the process with the argument that follows will enable the board of judges to evict at least one of the candidates from the competition. It will feature weekly evictions in the boardroom by the judges until the winner eventually emerges.

From the inception of the show, six remarkable entrepreneurs in their distinctive field of expertise have emerged winners, two of which recently made “the Forbes Africa 30 under 30 Entrepreneurs” namely David Okeowo the CEO of Enterprise Hills, and Ogechukwu Alex Obah CEO of Bodylikemilk, skincare professional.

After being listed on Forbes Africa 30 under 30, Oge said, “Winning The Next Titan helped me push my dreams. Apart from the money, the training in the academy helped. After winning the show, I was able to build my brand and web store where people can pay and get their products. The funds helped me to achieve this and helped me to push my products out globally”.

Last season, Amifeoluwa Yakubu, a garment manufacturer, CEO/ co-founder, Garms & Raiment, emerged victorious in the grand finale after competing with Harvey Oiku, Catherine Agbo and Dr AFES Hilda. The young entrepreneur has since then advanced in her field of expertise, as well as, becoming an employer of labour.