Get Between N100,000 To N5M To Grow Your Business At The Meet Up

Do you have a business idea that needs investment?
Do you need adequate funds to facilitate the expansion of your business?

Then this is for you!

The Meet Up is an event where business starters/owners present their ideas/businesses to investors. The event is being organized by StartUpNation (STUN) Africa, an organization that has noticed a huge gap in the access to structure and funding that the average Nigerian entrepreneur faces and have decided to help fill that gap.

At the Meet Up, 20 select business owners would pitch their businesses to prospective investors and stand the chance of raising N100,000- N5 million naira in seed funding. The event would feature a panel of investors from the STUN Africas Investor network and entrepreneurs would have 7 minutes to pitch their businesses.
The pitch event is meant for business owners looking to build their business into a sustainable enterprise and are willing to undergo a structuring and funding process to get there.

SELECTION PROCESS
The selection process is entirely merit based and would be done in conjunction with Institute for Entrepreneurship and Developmental Studies, IFEDS OAU. The programme is in two stages.

Stage One:
1) Businesses fill application online and onsite ( Click Here To Fill Form)
2) 40 applicants are selected by Raylinks Consulting Group and IFEDS for two-day boot camp

Stage Two:
1) Twenty Applicants are selected from the 40 boot camp participants to pitch to our network of investors on October 29th,2016.
2) The best businesses would receive investment strictly based on investors discretion.

HOW TO APPLY
Online Application:
1) Visit stunfrica.com.ng
Fill the basic registration form.
2) You would receive an automatic mail confirming your registration and the details of our bank account.
3) Pay N2000 for the registration form into our corporate bank account.
4) Send evidence of payment (picture of the teller/screenshot of e-transfer)to our mail: info@stunafrica.com.ng
5) The form containing a unique access code would be sent to your email.
6) Fill form and send filled document back to info@stunafrica.com.ng within one week.

Successful applicants would be contacted 72 hours after deadline day.

ONSITE:
1) Pay N2000 for registration form into our corporate bank account and/or pay cash to any of our registered agents.

2) Obtain application form from any of our registered agents listed below : Ezeanowi Ifechi: 08161102282 Akinloye Damilola : 09084619657
3) Fill form and return it to our agent within one week of collection.

Successful applicants would be contacted 72 hours after deadline day.


The Meet Up is proudly supported by OAU Peeps News Agency.

The Tale Of Two Women- Pink October

Two women were born on the same day, but lived in different parts of the world. They lived their full lives until the age of 40, when both noticed a lump in their breast.

Lizzy, lives with her husband and three children  in Florida, she works as an administrator in a school around her home. She noticed a lump on her left breast about two weeks before her 40th birthday. On noticing it, she informed her husband and they agreed that she would visit a doctor the following day. In the hospital, he lump was examined by a doctor and a breast biopsy was done and the sample analysed.

On receiving the result, the doctor gave her the option of mastectomy (a total removal of the breast and surrounding breast tissue). She discussed with her husband who agreed and she proceeded with it.
Lizzy celebrated her 45th birthday about two weeks ago, she still lives in Florida with her family.

Susan lived in Nigeria, with her husband and eight children. She was a deaconess in church and a secondary school teacher. About four days before her 40th birthday, she noticed a lump on her left breast. She decided not to worry about it. She later spoke to her pastor who advised her to join the prayer team on Wednesdays and see what happens. Susan did that for three months, but it seemed the lump was just getting bigger. she talked to her pharmacist friend who attended the same church. The friend told her about breast lumps, breast cancer and the need to seek expert advice. Susan rejected it, and cursed her, she can’t have cancer, it wasn’t not possible. Another friend introduced Susan to a herbal concotion that would be able to dissolve the lump in less than three weeks. Susan bought it and used it for three weeks untill she noticed she was losing weight.
One day on her way to church on evening, she fainted and was rushed to the hospital. after numerous tests, Susan was diagnosied with breast cancer with evidenced metastasis (spread) too the lungs. Susan was buried 6 months later.

PINK OCTOBER
October is tagged breast cancer awareness month. This is to increase the awareness about breast cancer, prevention , causes (risk factors inclusive) , treatment options and cure. it is done to let people know that there is a high possibility of survivorship if detection is early enough.

A breast Lump can be a sign, but a majority of lumps are not cancerous (especially in younger women), however a woman should get them checked by a health professional.

A self breast examination of the breasts is advised for every woman monthly and a mammogram for every woman above the age of forty once a year. Breast cancer is more common in older women, but it can still occur in young women (even though it is relatively uncommon). Cancer doesn’t mean death. early detection and early prevention measures are key to survival.
let us join hands and prevent breast cancer!!! Tell a friend!!!

(Okpala Uzochukwu is a student of the College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife and a member of the OAU Peeps Team)

NANS, Vice Chancellors Meet DG NYSC Over Partial 2016 Batch B Mobilization

This week, delegations of the committee of Vice Chancellors and the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) visited the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Sulaimon Kazaure over the proposed partial mobilization of prospective corps members for the 2016 Batch B Youth Service.

Here is a statement from the NYSC Headquarters today.

"The Director-General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Sulaiman Kazaure, has disclosed that proactive efforts are being made to ensure that all prospective Corps members eligible for the 2016 Batch ‘B’ service year are mobilized.

He gave this indication during an interface with the National Association of Nigerian Students in his office.

As part of measures to facilitate the mobilization of all the eligible graduates, the DG stated that all Corps Producing Institutions had been requested to upload full list of their Senate-approved prospective corps members to the NYSC portal.

He appealed to the students’ umbrella body to cooperate with the Scheme in its genuine efforts to resolve all issues relating to hitch-free mobilization of prospective corps members for the 2016 Batch ‘B’ service year.

Earlier in his remarks, the NANS President, Aruna Kadiri, said the union leaders were in the NYSC Headquarters to seek explanation on the earlier plan to get Corps Producing Institutions to submit partial list of their eligible graduates and to discuss the ways out.

After being informed of the latest development, the students’ leaders applauded the Federal Government and the NYSC Management for the steps taken towards addressing the challenges, and assured that they would promptly transmit the information to all their members.

During a similar meeting with the NYSC Management, a delegation of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors led by its Chairman, Professor Adebiyi Daramola, said the body was concerned about the likely implications of not mobilizing all eligible graduates in the 2016 Batch ‘B’.

The meeting agreed that the Universities would upload full list of all prospective Corps members approved by their respective Senates while the NYSC would take the most appropriate decision in processing the lists.
Discussion at the meeting also centred on the need for the Vice-Chancellors to put in place internal mechanisms that would ensure credibility in the handling of mobilization data by their institutions, including avoidance of submission of names of part-time graduates, as well as strict adherence to the approved carrying capacities of the institutions."

Jimoh Ibrahim To Storm OAU For Professor Ijalaye Annual Lecture

On Thursday, 13th of October, 2016, the Quintessential EQUITY CHAMBERS notable for her excellence presents to the generality of the Great Ife Community a threefold event:

The 8th Emeritus Professor D. A. Ijalaye Annual Public Lecture themed: "Nigeria's Economy: Roles of Worshippers in the Temple of Justice."

Guest Speaker: Dr Jimoh Ibrahim, OFR, CFR, the renowned lawyer and businessman (Chairman, Global Fleet Group)

Chairman of the Lecture: Mallam Yusuf Ali, SAN (Principal Partner, Yusuf Ali and Co)

Special Guest of Honour: Mrs. Funke Aboyade, SAN (managing partner, Funke Aboyade and Co)

The programme is also said to feature a Book Launch of "A Worshipper in the Temple"-  Selected Works of  Emeritus Professor D. A. Ijalaye (SAN, FNIALS).

Chief Launcher: Rt. Hon. Yusuf Lasun (Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Nigeria)


Book Reviewer: Mrs Funke Adekoya, SAN (Partner, AELEX Legal Practitioners and Arbitrators)

The Equity Chambers Alumni Reunion in celebration of past and founding members of Equity Chambers as well as an avenue for young honourables to learn from distinguished alumni some of which include Dr Abiola Sanni, Justice Olamide Oloyede, Dr S.B Odunsi, Barr. D. I. Kekemeke amongst others.

DATE: Thursday, October 13th 2016.
Venue: Oduduwa Hall, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.
Time: 10:00 am prompt.

Live Through This - Nikhil Lagh

All my life, darkness was the only light. Living never had much meaning to me and everyday I anticipate a cataclysm that would bring an end to the world and humanity. No child is born like this, trust me I wasn't. I was eleven when it all began.

My father was long gone and my mother owned a provision store that was quite far from our house so she'd always return late at night. Most times when my sister and I returned from school, we were made to stay at a neighbor's place before my mother returned. They had two daughters and I was of the same age with Layo, the younger one. Her elder sister being way older than us had Layo and my sister run an errand while she insisted I stayed behind to do the dishes with her.

Midway into the dishes, she went into her room and called me. I rinsed the soap off my hands and went in. She lay unclad on her bed and ordered me to touch her in her core places. I did not realize how stunned I was until she yanked me by my ears to the bed and soon, I found my little hands bending to her wish. I remember feeling very nauseated, yet I could not tell it to anybody because to my childlike mind it didn't seem like what it was; child abuse.

This went on for several months and ended only when she got admitted into an higher institution and had to leave home. My joy knew no bounds, I had found freedom or so I thought until I found myself feeling torn and incomplete. This feeling was soon replaced with a longing for a classmate of mine, Victoria who was known for passing such 'vibes'. Towards the end of junior school, I summoned courage to approach her and we became partners.

The next year, we moved and I had to change schools. It felt like I was living in hell already. I was cursing Layo's sister and missing Victoria at the same time. I was a boarder at my new school and I found comfort in solitude; the beautiful new girl was a certified loner. I hated it when school went on break because it seemed to like my only escape. I felt filthy whenever I was in church or knelt to pray and soon I began to question the existence of a supreme being and lapsed into depression on many levels.

After secondary school, the long wait upon resumption into OAU were the worst days of my life. I had several fits of anger and with my younger sister in boarding school, my mother was always at the receiving end. When we eventually resumed, I started failing from day one. I never made sense of classes or my notes. I was disgusted at the mess I had become. I had lost my joy of living and slowly, all the beautiful dreams I had of touring Venice and Kuala Lumpur faded away.

I thought I had seen the worst but it came on a night in second semester when there was a bloody battle in my head. I checked my results and I had just been gifted with two F's. I was having severe cramps too. In that moment, everything stopped to matter. I dragged myself from my room to sit on the roof of the college of health sciences as I always did whenever the tumult in my mind seemed to overwhelm me and after minutes of blankness, I composed a text message to my mother; an equivalent of a suicide note.

As I stood close to the edge of the roof, I wished the stillness in the night would not call my name. I wished I would not care about the people that cared. I wished I would not be reminded of the many things I had yet to do. For a moment, the thought of failing a million people occurred to me, but still I braced myself and asked for forgiveness (quite comical, considering the fact that I loathed a God theory). Apparently, the demons of my thoughts had won though I wanted to be discovered, to be stopped but most importantly, I wanted to be free.

Three seconds to my leap into oblivion, my phone rang. It was the ringtone I specially assigned to the group 'family' on my device and when I looked at the screen where I lay it, turned out my sister was calling with the phone she smuggled into her hostel and you would not believe. She just called to say she missed me and couldn't wait to see me come December. As the call ended, I shrieked madly. All my senses were flooded in unbelievable pain, I couldn't believe how close I came to taking my life.

I cried until I was weak on my knees pleading to nobody in particular. I had wanted freedom from my flesh yet somehow I knew that beyond this death lay a life that would be sadder than ever. I prayed hoping that somebody, anybody was listening and in that moment, on my knees, I knew I had found not just one, but several reasons to go on living. In the warmth of my sister's voice, I had found peace and many other things I was blind to all my life and most importantly, I found my liberation.


(Nikhil Lagh is a student of Political Science at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife and a member of the OAU Peeps Team)

A Little Or None At All - Okpala Uzochukwu

Alcohol have stirred up a lot of controversies in the modern world. It is a drink that means different things to different people: to some, it is the best definition of recreation, leisure and having a nice time, to some others, it is the best antidote to stress, while to others it is an unholy drink that can cause a lot of havoc.

Despite the controversies, alcohol is still one of the most commonly abused drug in the world, and the leading cause of preventable infant mental retardation in developed countries (fetal alcohol syndrome).

There are controversies amidst the medical profession too, the general belief is that a little bit of alcohol is good for the heart (some do not agree to this though, instead they believe the research was sponsored by breweries to down play its side effects), never the less, alcohol is a risk factor for numerous  diseases which include liver diseases, cancers, diabetes, infant mental retardation, to mention but few.

In our campus community, we have witnessed some bad effects of alcohol. Overspeeding, especially by motorists coming from New Buka late at night thereby endangering the lives of innocent students. The most touching story I witnessed was in my first year (four years ago) when a drunk driver coming from New Buka area killed a barber on his bike. More recent drunk driving incidences we have heard about have lead to injuries only.

There is a good side to alcohol, the bond it creates between friends, its alleviation of anxiety and its recreational purposes cannot be under emphasized.

As a general rule in life, too much of anything is bad, alcohol is not exempted. alcohol intoxication has lead to loss of lives, loss of relationship, loss of trust, disgrace and other social vices. Moderation (a little) or non at all is the safest measure.

(Okpala Uzochukwu is a student of the College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife and a health writer on the OAU Peeps Team)

Alpha Club OAU Commences Charity Week, Commissions Several Projects

Known to many as the league of gentlemen and big boys, the Alpha Club of the Obafemi Awolowo University on Monday, 10th October 2016 commenced her charity week 2016 with free bus rides for students between campus gate to bus stops and the commissioning of her community projects.

Some of the projects which were commissioned by the Dean of Students Affairs, Dr (Mrs) Akinola included waste bins and Road Safety Signages at strategic locations on campus. The programme however continued today, Tuesday 11th October with a blood donation exercise which was done in collaboration with National Blood Transfusion Service and had quite a number of students turning out for the donation.

Commenting on the nature of the club, the Lord Mayor of the club, Mayor Adelowo Adeola, said, "Alpha Club is a socio-cultural and philanthropic club". In a chat with our correspondent, he further encouraged the participation of students and members of the University Community in the donation which continues tomorrow and outlined the other activities of the week; donations to the University Health Centre on Thursday, 13th October, an orphanage visitation on Saturday, 15th October and Thanksgiving services on Friday 14th and Sunday 16th October respectively.