Having just spent my first day in Abuja with the Global Entrepreneurship Week Nigeria team (lead by UNESCO Centre Abuja), and some of its partners, I am feeling totally inspired.

In the first half of the day, I did a short presentation on Global Entrepreneurship Week and its aims, and gave a brief background on Enterprise Week and its history. About 40 people joined us for the meeting and it was held in the offices of the team’s recently acquired strategic partner, the Abuja Enterprise Agency. Many of the attendees travelled very far for the meeting (it is over 300 miles apart), from different states, but they were all passionate and united by the same thing - building economies and communities through youth entrepreneurship. Attending organizations included Junior Achievement Nigeria (it’s called Young Enterprise in the UK), the Nigerian Association of Students, SIFE Nigeria, and a range of other NGO and state representatives. We were also joined by the Global EW Host organization from Cameroon, Youth Business Cameroon. (more…)