Next Titan Premiere Season Eight

Ugo Aliogo

One of Nigeria’s foremost business reality television show, Next Titan is set to premiere the season eight edition of the show tagged: ‘The Uncaged Edition’ with a focus to drive provoke the entrepreneurial spirit of young Nigerians.

Speaking at an event to mark the commencement of the eight edition, Executive Producer, Next Titan, Mide Akinlaja, said aside from the entertainment aspect of the 10-week competition show, its importance lies in igniting entrepreneurial spirit.

He also stated that the competition aimed at showcasing the possibility of entrepreneurship in transforming lives with just an idea that can be scaled to greatness with a market and with Nigeria’s population.

Akinlaja further explained that by scouting for young talented people who have entrepreneurial acumens, grooming them through rigorous tasks, boardroom process, mentorship, and eventually funding a winner’s idea leading to an opportunity to create jobs for themselves and others is indeed a big contributor to the socio-economic development of the country.

According to him, “Apart from the success stories of the previous winners of the show which have been phenomenal, the Next Titan being on national television has also positively impacted on the generality of other young people who are the viewers who have shared their testimonies regarding the programme causing a paradigm shift in their mind-sets to moving from jobs -seekers to jobs-creators.

“We are excited again about the commencement of the new season which is Season Eight. We received over 20,000 entries, and the Season 8 Auditions held in 6 cities which are Abuja, Kano, PH, Enugu, Ibadan, Lagos and also on Online which gave the contestants across Nigeria an opportunity to pitch their business ideas in different zones to our audition judges, and from which 70 vibrant young entrepreneurs were able to make it to the TITAN BOOTCAMP which we have been in the last three days. And this evening, Top 16 or 18 contestants with bright ideas would be unveiled, and these entrepreneurs shall live together to compete by carrying out weekly business tasks and challenges around the city of Lagos for 10 weeks on television, and with weekly evictions during the boardroom shows.”