Next Titan Nigeria Season 8 Kicks Off

Next Titan Nigeria Season 8 Kicks Off

By Funke Olaode

The Next Titan Nigeria Season 8, an Entrepreneurial Reality Show designed to provoke the entrepreneurial spirit of young Nigerians was last week unveiled in Lagos. Tagged Uncaged, The Next Titan is Nigeria’s foremost Business Reality TV Show. It is a 10 week competition where contestants slog it out through various tasks.

Aside from the entertainment aspect of the show, its importance lies in igniting entrepreneurial spirit and 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.The Show, 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 Nigeria.

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

Thousands of entries have been received from young aspiring entrepreneurs across Nigeria. This will give them another opportunity to showcase their business ideas and battle one another for a grand Prize of N15 million to start their dream business.

The Season 8 process will start by allowing the contestants to pitch their business ideas through auditions from 6 major cities in Nigeria which are Abuja, Kano, PH, Enugu, Ibadan, and Lagos. And those who would not be able to attend these physical auditions would also be given opportunity to audition online. After this, and for the main show aspect, the Top 50 would be selected for Top 50 Boot Camp, before the 16 final contestants with brightest ideas are shortlisted to live together, and to compete by carrying out weekly business tasks and challenges around the city of Lagos for 10 weeks on television, and with weekly evictions in the boardroom by the judges.

Season Eight promises to be more exciting and impactful as all contestants will be given opportunity to be winners from audition stages. A minimum of 500 and maximum of 1000 contestants from auditions will qualify for funding of up to N3 million funding courtesy Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development.

Audition will start by next week in Port Harcourt before moving to Abuja, Enugu, Lagos, Ibadan and Kano, before other Pre-show activities such as Top 50 Boot Camp which will hold in Lagos, Premiere Gala Evening and many others.

Apart from audition judges, the judges of the main show still remain the same, and these are top Nigerian business leaders such as Kyari Bukar, Ex Chairman, Nigerian Economic Summit Group; Tonye Cole, Founder, Sahara Group; Chris Parkes, and Lilian Olubi, CEO EFG Hermes.

Appreciating judges and sponsors for their unflinching support over the years, the executive producer of the programme, Mide Akinlaja expressed gratitude to Heritage Bank plc, which is the lead sponsor. The Gold Associate Sponsors, MSPORT and Sifax Group, Silver Associate Sponsor, Haven Homes, Official Supporting Sponsors such as Terra Season Cubes, Airpeace Airline, Lifemate Furniture, RC Cola, Nikky Taurus Limited, and Cummins Generators as well as Premium Box.

Adelaja also thanked the Minister, Federal Ministry of Youth and Sport Development, Mr. Sunday Dare for the iconic partnership with The Next Titan Nigeria which will cut across two different seasons, Season 8 and Season 9.

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