Competition for the 2023 International Women’s Day Conference Pitch (N1,000,000 Prize)

The International Women Day Conference is a venue and a lighthouse for all female business owners to learn, connect, and get pertinent advice on how to achieve as a woman in every field.

Female entrepreneurs will have the chance to network with other successful women business owners who are strategic and brilliant innovators at this one-day intensive conference. Female investors and female business owners will also engage in conversation and create connections that will be mutually beneficial. To be eligible for a chance to pitch at the conference and win N1,000,000, apply.

Climate Science Olympiad 2023 (CSO23)

Deadline:10th June 2023

Applications open for the Climate Science Olympiad 2023 a student contest to identify climate change remedies. Are you prepared to assume the role of a world leader?

The Climate Science Olympiad 2023 has three age brackets: under 16s, 17-19, and 20-25 years old. Regardless of age, participants compete in the same qualifiers and answer the same type of problem statements. However, we only compare participants within their age brackets.

Rice University Business Plan Competition 2023 for Student Startups

Deadline: February 28, 2023

Applications open for the Rice University Business Plan Competition 2023. The competition, now in its 22nd year, gives collegiate entrepreneurs practical experience to pitch their ideas, enhance their business plans, and discover what it takes to found a successful company.

The “advancement of letters, science, and art” is the mission statement of Rice University, a private, independent institution. With a wide range of academic programs in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, architecture, music, and business management.

The World Food Forum (WFF) Youth Focal Points Group is accepting applications

Deadline for Applications: February 25, 2023

The first cohort for the years 2022–2024. Was developed by the World Food Forum (WFF) Youth Action Track Focal Points Group (FPG). Which included 12 young leaders from throughout the world.

This group’s mission is to develop youth policy positions on food and agricultural issues. And to coordinate regional activities. It also provides strategic guidance for upcoming major events. And the Youth Action Assembly during the WFF flagship event. Which is held at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, in October of each year.

Agricultural Innovation for Climate Resilience Program 2023 of the World Food Program (WFP) (upto $ 150,000 in funding)

Deadline for applications: March 1st, 23:59 (CEST)

The World Food Program (WFP) Innovation Accelerator seeks for, promotes, and scales innovative new approaches to end world hunger and accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The World Food Program (WFP) Innovation Accelerator seeks for, promotes, and scales innovative new approaches to end world hunger and accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Agricultural Innovation for Climate Resilience Program seeks to assist agripreneurs and high-impact solutions in LMICs that address resource-efficient farming.

NIPC committed to making Nigeria preferred investment destination

The Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) has expressed its commitment to ensure that Nigeria becomes a preferred investment destination of choice for investors.

Its Executive Secretary, Mrs Saratu Umar, said this at the NIPC stakeholders’ engagement forum with state Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) yesterday in Abuja.

‘Shea market creates economic opportunity for women’

The Co-founder, Shea Integrated Global Foundation (SIGF), Priscilla Nwosu, has said the shea market creates opportunities for women to thrive.

Nwosu stated this at a briefing on the Conservation and Livelihood Improvement of Women Through Shea Tree Value-Chain Development Project.

Firm unveils app to tackle climate change

A Nigeria-based energy firm, Eden Lotus Power, has announced the launch of a new carbon offsetting app, Eden Zero, that would help users reduce activities that affect the environment.

The firm, in a statement, said Eden Zero was designed to make sustainable action accessible for everyone, by providing users with an easy way to measure and track their carbon footprint and actively reduce it through offsets.

Obelix raises N100m for SMEs

A crowdfunding intermediary, Obelix, has raised N100 million from 9,324 registered small-ticket retail investors in the country, the company said in a statement yesterday.

Obelix, a subsidiary of Alternative Finance Limited, said the fund would be invested in three promising pre-selected Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria.

FG Sensitises Stakeholders On Hibiscus Export Compliance Agreement

The Comptroller General of Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), Dr Vincent Isegbe, has said with the lifting of the ban on the exportation of hibiscus flower to Mexico, Nigeria will benefit a lot considering the huge investment in the sector’s value chain and foreign exchange earnings.

200 Female Entrepreneurs Compete in MTN Grant Contest

Two hundred Nigerian female entrepreneurs have been selected to pitch their sustainable business ideas to receive N2 million grants each, in the ongoing Y’ellopreneur initiative by MTN Foundation.

CMCC Climate Change Communication Award “Rebecca Ballestra” 2023 (€5,000 prize)

Deadline: June 15, 2023

Applications for the CMCC Climate Change Communication Award 2023 are now open. The CMCC Climate Change Communication Award “Rebecca Ballestra” aims to showcase and promote the most creative and impactful initiatives that: