MD of advertising company subsidiary needed

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MD at  advertising subsidiary company sought. Please see brief below:

Company is the World’s largest and leading arbiter of brands and branding with a program to identify, promote and celebrate leading brands within the global market, through a bouquet of promotional products and services including their brands book, which is the cornerstone of the program.  Consequent upon this, brands now have a new aspiration, one which is characterized by valiant missions, renewed intents and bold visions.

Several years back, their Yacht set sail on its maiden voyage in Nigeria, Its aim, to give many their strongest brands an intimate close-up.  The Yacht berthed with the publication of the initial Volume of their brands book , which turned out very exciting and represented only a tip of the iceberg of key brands that exist in our country.

In 2010, the now improved Liner set sail yet again, it identified and promoted more key brands and ultimately published volume 2 of these key brands.

Their Vessel just rolled in its anchor from the deck in preparation to leave the harbor. Their immediate mission; to find a Competent Sailor to pilot its affairs up to a third publication. 

This Sailor should have competencies in Advertising & Marketing Communications as well as Brand Management with a great flair and understanding of research.  

Skills will include but not limited to:

•Persuasive & Negotiation skills

•Business development

•Excellent Communication

•Client servicing

Are you that person we seek? Have you got the foresight, sixth sense, drive and passion to sail this vessel?

Please send CVs to info@deecla.com.ng


Apply for the MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Business Plan Competition, Deadline is February 28, 2015

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We would like to share MIT Sloan Business Plan Competition details. Your idea might just be the winning one.

 

Africa has witnessed inspiring entrepreneurial success stories in the recent past, but for its future to be secure, we need to bring forward and energize the next generation. The continent is the final frontier for the maverick entrepreneur and through this competition, we aim to find, promote, support and connect these innovative driven change makers. 

Do you have an idea that is original and scalable and that solves an important problem for the continent’s inhabitants and stakeholders? We want to hear it! 

Enter the Africa Innovate Business Plan Competition 2015. Here’s how:  

Eligibility 
Submissions must be received by February 28, 2015. Eligible submissions must clearly demonstrate:

• Potential for direct and substantial commercial and/or social impact in Africa
• Feasibility of implementation within any African market 

Please note that ventures with up to $50,000 in funding will not be eligible for this competition. Competing teams must have one student member enrolled at a US University. If selected as a finalist, a team member must physically be present for the pitch competition on conference day – April 4, 2015.

Submission Details 
The submissions, which must be in PDF format, should include a 2 page executive summary and up to two supporting exhibits describing the business (supporting exhibits are optional). Submissions will be evaluated on the level of innovation, potential for impact, practicality and sustainability. Successful submissions will include and/or demonstrate the following:

• A description of the business model; the problem and the solution
• Target market and size of the opportunity
• Plans for sustainability; financial and otherwise
• A description of the management team and their relevant skills/experience
• Scalability of the model 

Evaluation Process  
Round 1: All submissions are reviewed by a preliminary panel of judges. All participating teams can receive detailed feedback on their submissions and/or ideas if requested.
Round 2:

• Finalists selected in round 1 will be notified and can revise and resubmit before the final round.
• On April 4th, during this year’s conference, all finalists will deliver a 2.5-minute pitch to the panel of judges and other guests. This will be followed by 1.5-minutes of Q&A.
• Judges will deliberate briefly and decide cash prizes for the Grand Prize (Winner); Gold Award and the Bronze Award winners.
• The conference guests will decide the Audience Favorite Award.

Key Dates: 
February 28th: Submissions deadline | March 9th: Finalists notified | March 21st: Finalist business plans deadline | April 4th: Conference, live pitches and Awards.

For more information and inquiries, please contact: sloanafrica@gmail.com

Free Asset Pricing online course, will be taught by a Chicago Booth Instructor

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Coursera, a free MOOC platform, will deliver a free 7-week Asset Pricing online course and we have decided to share their advert below. The course will be taught by a professor at the Prestigious, Chicago Booth graduate school.

 

Are you curious about quantitative academic finance? Have you considered graduate study in finance? Are you working in an investment bank, money-management firm or hedge fund and you want to understand models better? Would you like to know what buzzwords like beta, risk premium, risk-neutral price, arbitrage, equity premium, and discount factor mean? This class is for you. 

We will see how one basic idea, price equals expected discounted payoff, unites everything - models that describe stocks, bonds, options, real investments, discrete time, continuous time, asset pricing, portfolio theory, and so forth. 

In this part I, we’ll quickly learn or review time-series in continuous and discrete time. We'll look at some basic facts. Then we’ll start with the underlying consumption-based model, and we’ll preview some classic issues in finance. That outlines the big ideas of the whole class. Then, we'll take a step back and study contingent claims and the theorems showing the existence of a discount factor (the m in p=E(mx)). We'll explore the mean-variance frontier and expected return vs. beta models and factor structures. We will study the classic linear models — CAPM, APT, ICAPM. We will learn how to use GMM to estimate and evaluate asset pricing models, as well as the classic regression tests. This paves the way for Part 2 which focuses on applications and empirical evaluation.

The math in real, academic, finance is not actually that hard. Understanding how to use the equations, and see what they really mean about the world... that's hard, and that's what I hope will be uniquely rewarding about this class.

 

Find out more at: Coursera's Website

Do you want to vote during Nigeria's elections on February 14 & 28, 2015? Hurry now! PVC collection centers close end of the month.

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Elections in Nigeria come up next month on the 14th and 28th February.

 

You must have a PVC (Permanent Voters Card) to vote.

 

If you are yet to receive your PVC, please go to your nearest local government in your neighborhood and make inquiries or visit The INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) Website, click on 'Registration Area Centers Nation Wide' and select your state.

 

Collection centers are open through the end of the month, including weekends. Hurry now!!!



Nigeria's elections come up next month: Yet to receive your Permanent Voters Card?

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INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC), LAGOS STATE 

KNOW YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORAL OFFICER (E. O.) FOR COMPLAINTS, OBSERVATIONS, INFORMATION AND INQUIRIES on Permanent Voter Card (PVC), Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) etc...

 S/N. LGA: NAME - PHONE NO.  

1.  ALIMOSHO: MR. MAKINDE O. A. - 0803 704 3589 

2. AMUWO ODOFIN: MR. ADEYEMI TAJU - 0803 724 1985 

3. APAPA: MR. ADELEKE - 0803 352 3065 

4. BADAGRY: MR. ODU C. I. S. - 0803 471 8303 

5. EPE MR. OKPIGBE H. O. - 0802 328 3865 

6. ETI-OSA: MRS. OGUNGBEMI A. - 0803 359 2674 

7. OSHODI ISOLO: MRS. ADEKUNLE A. T. - 0803 322 9031 

8. SOMOLU: MR. HASSAN N. LEKE - 0803 332 4699 

9. SURULERE: MR. ITOANDO A. - 0802 332 6896 

10. OJO: MR. IGWE - 0802 332 6896 

11. LAGOS MAINLAND: MR. ALAGBE - 08035302392

12. LAGOS ISLAND: MR. ONILERE - 0802 738 2763

13. IKORODU: MR. OYEDEPO - 0803 428 5068 

14. AGEGE: MR. ADERIBIGBE - 0803 335 7486 

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16. IKEJA: MR. OLOGBOSERE - 0802 857 3955 

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18. AJEROMI IFELODUN: MR. ADELEKE - 0805 540 5599 

19. IBEJU LEKKI: MR. DEMOLA SHOKOYA - 0802 314 4714 

20. MUSHIN: MR. OLANIYI - 0803 330 0031

For other states, please see the link INEC Nigeria Web Page and click on Voters Reg. Status

You need to take your Temporary Voter Card (TVC) (the card you used during the last elections) along with you to be able to collect your Permanent Voter Card (PVC). 

If you can't find your TVC or you don't have one, take two (2) passport photographs with you and get (re)registered. 

It's that easy!

Please get your PVCs and VOTE!!!!

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Read Mr. Bankole Cardoso's interview: he is the only son of Late Dr.Ameyo Adadevoh

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SpidNetworking representative, Clara Ogunsemi,met Bankole Cardoso, the founder of Easy Taxi, a reliable and burgeoning online taxi cab company in Nigeria that allows you to find and book a cab in a short period, say 100 snaps of your fingers, at Spidnetworking event with Fidelity SME in December 2014. They exchanged business cards.

Bankole is also the only child of late Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, and he along with a team has set up a foundation in memory of his late mother, who died from the Ebola virus and fought hard to stop the first victim(the controversial Liberian) of the Ebola disease from leaving her hospital (First Consultants) and spreading the disease sporadically across Lagos and in turn Nigeria.

NPR records an interview with Bankole below. Read also how the foundation is already  helping to improve the healthcare sector in Nigeria.

Amazing! We will bring Mr. Cardoso to speak at a SpidNetworking event soon.

Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh and her only child, Bankole Cardoso. Even after she was diagnosed with Ebola, her son says, "Her morale was not low. She is such a fighter."

She is one of the African health workers who caught Ebola and died. Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh was the head of First Consultants Medical Centre in Lagos, Nigeria. In July, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer flew sick to the city from Monrovia, ended up at her clinic and turned out to have Ebola. He wanted to leave. Dr. Adadevoh and her team refused to let him go — if she had, he could have triggered a wide-scale epidemic in Lagos, a city of 20 million people. Instead, the outbreak was limited in Africa's most populous nation, and Nigeria was declared Ebola-free in October by the World Health Organization.

Adadevoh's only child, Bankole Cardoso, returned to Nigeria last year from the U.S. He had studied at Boston College, then worked in New York in financial services. But he missed his extended family, so he returned home to Nigeria and started a taxi service, EasyTaxi.

Cardoso, who turned 26 while his mother was fighting Ebola, shared his thoughts about her life and death — and her legacy.

How did Ebola come into your life?

Once the Liberian national came into Nigeria and was rushed to my mother's hospital — of course this was the first time Nigeria had ever had Ebola.

When you say your mother's hospital — Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh was the chief doctor at First Consultants Medical Centre in Lagos.

Yes, she was there for 21 years. That's where I was born, that's where all my cousins were born, my friends were born. So many people go to that hospital because of her. She's synonymous with First Consultants Hospital.

Upon seeing the patient, she was told that he was coming from Liberia, so she immediately suspected that he may have an infectious disease, because he was being treated for malaria at the time.

And she noticed that [it] seemed as if he was bleeding on the surface of his skin. So that was the first time I ever heard her speak about Ebola.

What did she say?

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Dr. Adadevoh was the head of First Consultants Medical Centre in Lagos, Nigeria, which admitted the country's first Ebola case.

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All I remember her saying at the time — this was just her nature, never about herself — just I remember what she was saying was that he seemed scared, the patient. And so she was praying for him and telling him everything will be fine.

Just like her normal self, as you would hear from anyone in Nigeria that has come across her, that she is completely selfless. She gives her all to all her patients. When someone is ill, she is happy to do an in-house call, she's happy to do anything to make sure they're fine.

Beyond the medicine, she was always there for people

I remember her being so affected that he was so scared and worried about himself, when she had to tell him that she believes he has an infectious disease.

Later on, I found out that when he was told he had an infectious disease, he went bananas, he was furious, and he demanded to be released from the hospital.

At that point, and this I know as well, the Liberian government was calling her and pressuring her to release him, that he had come for an important meeting, an international conference in Calabar — in the eastern part of Nigeria.

So they demanded for him to be released, citing that he was kidnapped by the hospital and that it's against his human rights to keep him there.

They threatened her multiple times. She stood her ground. There was no way to let him go because he was putting the rest of Nigeria at risk if he left the hospital.

By now your mother knew he had Ebola?

On the Monday I believe they did the test. By the Tuesday or Wednesday it was confirmed.

I remember her being preoccupied the whole time, with this on her mind that she has an Ebola patient ...

That there's no Ebola treatment unit?

Precisely, and at the time there were messages going around Nigeria — avoid First Consultants Hospital, avoid Obalende — which is the area the hospital's in — because there's an Ebola patient there.

She was concerned that the image and reputation of her hospital was being really damaged.

The Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, died. Your mother then had to face a 21-day incubation period during which she could develop Ebola.

When she fell ill herself, it was more my dad noticing. Normally she's an extremely active person. But one Saturday she seemed to be just taking her time, not really her normal self.

So he suspected and we spoke, and she says she feels OK. When she didn't go to work on Monday and Tuesday is when she started to feel ill.

She didn't want to go into the isolation unit. Because when the Liberian national was at her hospital, I remember she used the world "uninhabitable." That that place was uninhabitable [the isolation unit that was being made ready by the health authorities].

Eventually, two days later, an ambulance came and we went to the isolation unit. The WHO doctor said he has dealt with hundreds of Ebola patients. In every five, two walk away, two have to be managed, one dies.

And so he said that, in this condition, where he was working with bare health bones, understaffed, he was really battling and it's going to be a tough situation.

Then the doctor was speaking to her, and after, he told us he suspects she has this disease. Of course at that point, I completely lost it, but I spoke to her and she was like, "Do not worry, this thing is not going to kill me."

Was her morale low?

This is someone whose morale is never low. Even then her morale was not low. She is such a fighter.

How was she responding in those first days?

Suddenly, every day seemed to be getting worse and worse, so [the doctor] told us to prepare ourselves for what was to come.

Five days later, she was still there. And things seemed to be getting better, perhaps. And [the doctor], for the first time he had something to say — maybe it could be neurological damage at the end of the day.

This was probably day eight or nine. This was my birthday.

The next day, we come expecting some more positive news, and that day the story just changes. He says it will be a matter of time.

Until you lost your mother?

Yes.

Were you able to digest that?

Of course not. My dad was able to comfort me, but I was lost completely.

Losing a mother is tough in any circumstances, but losing her after she had tried to fight for the life of a patient suffering from Ebola, losing her to Ebola — that must have been devastating.

Yes, completely. Devastating doesn't come close or even cover it.

What were you thinking?

Anger, confusion — they're probably the two most forceful feelings I had.

The fact that your mother is hailed as a hero — does that help?

It was difficult at the beginning as we began to grieve. Her picture was everywhere, in the newspapers, on television, on social media. But now it helps in the sense that people are offering genuine support. This came from our nucleus of family and friends to begin with. But then after that, it has become even bigger. And so, I was comforted by people I know and now I'm being comforted by people I don't even know.

What do they say about your mother?

That your mother was great, she did this for our country. She really made a difference — an impact. She's a heroine.

That's what's intriguing to me now, to hear different stories from different people. [They say] "she treated my grandfather, she treated my mother, she treated me, she treated my children. She treated four generations of our family". And you hear that from so many different people. That all helps.

How old was your mother?

She was 57. A lot of people that knew her — her patients and those that knew her outside of the hospital — were very surprised. They thought she was 40 or something. She had a very young personality. She took care of herself. She was too young. Fifty-seven.

And you must be thinking, I'm glad I came home, back home to Nigeria?

Things happen in mysterious ways, right? There I was in New York, comfortable. No reason really to come back.

But there was this feeling inside me that I wanted to be home because of the family. That's where I belong. Thank God I did come back. But also, at times, I think if I was there, she would have visited me or maybe she wouldn't have been here.

Is it lonely in the house without your mother?

It's definitely not the same. Every household connected to our family feels the same. There's just something missing. Because, like I mentioned, she was this special bond between every single one of us. She just had this special relationship with everybody.

How will you memorialize your mother?

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Fallen Heroes: A Tribute to The Health Workers Who Died Of Ebola

We have set up a health trust fund in her name — Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh. www.drasatrust.org

It's a health fund set up to improve the Nigerian healthcare system by working with institutions on a community level and by improving healthcare across Nigeria.

Because the national health infrastructure is poor.

Exactly and also because that is what she loved to do. She was in healthcare her whole life. Her father was a doctor, a professor. He opened the Infectious Diseases hospital in Nigeria which is where my mother passed.

He was a renowned doctor as well. Her family is full of doctors. This is what she loved to do. She could be on holiday — anywhere, but she still attended to patients. She would do anything for patients.

So to memorialize her, we want to continue impacting healthcare in Nigeria — giving people trust and faith in Nigerian healthcare.

What kind of projects will you take on?

Still in discussion phase — healthcare system, infectious diseases, education. Focusing on those main areas.

We've already received some Hazmat suits to distribute to Nigerian hospitals.

The protective gear that those who are fighting Ebola wear, to keep safe.

Even other infectious diseases. It's important that Nigeria be prepared for all infectious diseases.

Nigeria often gets a very bad press: Boko Haram, the missing kidnapped schoolgirls, complaints that Nigeria should be superrich with its oil wealth and yet people are so poor, because of corruption. But on this first case of Ebola in Nigeria, your country is earning plaudits from all over the world for stopping the virus.

Exactly. I read somewhere that Nigeria was ranked 107th out of 109 countries in terms of healthcare, by the WHO, in 2000. So the fact that we beat this is definitely something that we had no divine right to do. I think people are shocked that Nigeria could pull off something like that.

This has shown that, within our own country we can take control. We didn't need, really, outside help out of this situation. I really believe my generation is inspired by that.

Your mother would be pleased to hear that.

She will be. The last thing she said to me was that she was proud of me. I feel still incredibly connected to her, despite the fact that she's not here.

So she's continuing to inspire you?

Definitely. Absolutely. It's strange because, of course, there are times where I feel that she's still around. But then I'm like, "Don't be silly". But there are really times when I feel she is working her magic how she used to do.

Did your mother discuss with you how she may have become infected with Ebola?

There have been different theories that I heard from the hospital. That she touched an [intravenous fluid] drip bag. I read in places that she had pushed the man — but that's not true, because my mum was small and he was a big guy!

She always maintained that she never had contact with him directly. So she claimed that it was a mystery how she got this.

Was faith a part of Dr. Adadevoh's life?

Hugely a part of my mother's life and mine through her. She was an incredibly spiritual person. Her faith was incredibly strong. And so we'd go to church together and things like that.

She would actually call in priests and pastors to pay last rites to her patients that were not going to make it. And she had such a strong belief. Her last words were "Blood of Jesus," according to the doctor.

You say she was incredibly energetic and always up and about. Do you think she gave up?

Absolutely not. The doctors — they kept saying she is a fighter, so she's going to pull through. Giving up — it just doesn't exist for her.

Nigeria's yearly import from Vietnam has hit N84 billion naira

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According to the Nigerian Guardian, who published the following article,

The Nigerian Federal Government’s yearly rice import bill from Vietnam has hit about $500 million (N84 billion) according to the Nigerian-Vietnam Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

  Besides, Vietnam also spends about $100 million to import agricultural products such as raw cashew nuts, cassava and oil palm from Nigeria.

  Indeed, Nigeria spends about N365 million yearly on the importation of 2.1 million metric tonnes of milled rice from different countries, such as India, Thailand and Vietnam.

  President of the chamber, Prince Oye Akinsemoyin, who made this disclosure in an interview with The Guardian recently, said Nigeria’s imports cover a wide range of commodities, including those of Vietnam’s strengths such as rice.

  He listed Vietnam’s major exports to Nigeria to include rubber, electric and electronic products, footwear, plastics, handicraft and fine art articles and construction materials, while the country imports from Nigeria raw cashew nuts, fruits, cotton and minerals.

 Akinsemoyin stated: “Basically, Nigeria exports Agricultural products. At the moment, Vietnam is the largest importer of Nigeria’s raw cashew nuts. Vietnam’s cashew import from Nigeria is about a $100 million yearly. Nigeria exports agricultural items like Cassava with which Vietnam produces starch and the raw materials

Vietnam imports sea foods from Nigeria, like shrimps, fish; also oil palm, which is processed to palm oil, which goes into local production of creams and cosmetics Vietnam imports food items like coconut and also beans and fruits from Nigeria.

  Vietnam exports rice to Nigeria; Vietnam is one of Nigeria’s trading partners in rice exportation. Vietnam’s rice export to Nigeria will be about $500 million per annum. Vietnam exports garments, fabrics to Nigeria as well as shoes and fashion accessories. Many of the cosmetics companies in Vietnam are looking for distributors in Nigeria. 

  Vietnam exports furniture, artifacts and art work for interior décor”. 

  He disclosed that many companies from Vietnam are willing to invest in Nigeria.

  According to him, “the chamber is now looking at setting up institutions that will further foster the relationship between Nigeria and Vietnam; we are encouraging investors from Vietnam to make in road to Nigeria economy, companies like Viettel is willing to invest $7 billion into the Nigerian Telecommunication sector. Arrangement is already going on to avail them the opportunity to bid for the relevant spectrum to be able to operate as one of the telecom operators in the country.

  “PetroVina is also interested in investing in the Exploration and Production (E&P) sub-sector of the country’s Oil and Gas sector, PetroVina is interested in the upstream and the midstream sectors. We are trying to attract investments that will be able to provide employment for Nigerians. The kind of investors that will be able to have multiplier effects on the Nigerian economy”.