Nigerian Student Emerges Winner of Entrepreneurship Challenge in The US
Music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs was recently crowned the hip-hop's No 1 cash king and now he is using his fortune to groom new batch of Millionaires. Yesterday he made special appearance a National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge at The Times Center in New York City where the entertainment mogul donated $250 000 to the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship(NFTE),a group that supports teen entrepreneurs. Fourteen finalists including a Nigerian Toheeb Okenla were recipients of this prize.Others are juny Nguyen,Jesus Fernandez,and Dagim Girma.At the event,the four finalists also received coaching session from Diddy. According to theybf.com,Okenla and Fernandez who both won the first place beat out "38 teen competitors with their bussiness plan for T&J Soccer,which centers on manufacturing retail business that sells soccer socks with pockets sewn into them for inserts that protects players' shins during soccer games"