It is the result 95 teams from 17 institutions of higher learning have been waiting for. After much anticipation, CIMA, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, has announced the Nigerian shortlist for the CIMA Global Business Challenge 2015, its international business competition for university undergraduates, organised globally in partnership with Barclays.





Congratulations to the finalists:



·         Dream Team from University of Ilorin, Ilorin

·         Team Galatic from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife

·         N-Ergy from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife

·         FUTOITES Business Team from Federal University of Technology Owerri.



The teams will compete in a national final on Saturday, 6 June 2015, which holds at the International Centre for Arbitration and ADR located on 1a Remi Olowude Street, Lekki Peninsular Phase 1, in Lagos.




The winning team will be flown by CIMA toWarsaw in Poland for the global final along with each winning team from Australia, Bangladesh, Mainland China, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, the Middle East, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Zambia.



Admission to the CIMA Global Business Challenge Nigerian final is free for undergraduates. Competing teams are enjoined to invite friends and family members to attend to cheer them to success. To reserve a seat, please email  info@klagos.com with your name, phone number and institution of learning.




The CIMA Global Business Challenge is a business competition for undergraduates around the world, designed to showcase talent in business management and identify young business leaders of the future. Competing teams are asked to put their business skills to the test by analysing and solving a real-life corporate case study.



The Nigerian finals of the Global Business Challenge is sponsored by Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Limited, and supported by Guinness Nigeria Plc. 

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Aladekomo, Adetu for CIMA GBC national final

Business Leaders, including Chairman of SmartCity Resorts Plc, Sir Demola Aladekomo, and former Managing Director of Guinness Nigeria Plc, Mr. Seni Adetu, will serve as judges in the first Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Global Business Challenge (GBC) national final slated for June 6, 2015 at the Lagos Court of Arbitration in Lekki, Lagos.

Other judges at the CIMA GBC national final are Mr. Laoye Jaiyeola, Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) and Imo Oyewole, Managing Consultant, Global Talent Network – HR Consultants.

GBC is an international competition designed by the CIMA to bring out the best in young future business leaders and emphasizes on CIMA’s vision of developing and nurturing young talent around the world. GBC helps undergraduate students to foster better interpersonal and communications skills, by working together as a four-member team to present a business case study.

Participants in the competition will comprise of teams of four undergraduates from universities, polytechnics and monotechnics across Nigeria who successfully scaled the initial screening to emerge as finalists.

Each team will deliver a presentation on a real-life business case study and proffer solutions to the business challenge therein. The judges, boardroom gurus with wide-ranging experience in the corporate world, will evaluate the presentations of each team in a question and answer session to test the viability and strength of each team’s recommendations.

They will then decide on the team that will forge ahead to represent “Team Nigeria” at the global finals in Warsaw, Poland next August. Speaking on the choice of judges for the competition, CIMA Country Manager, Ijeoma Anadozie, said “The judges are some of Nigeria’s leading businessmen, entrepreneurs and thought leaders.


They come from a variety of backgrounds and level of comfort with various industries and technologies. The national finals will be very exciting as there will be a meeting of great minds and exchange of amazing ideas.”

The 2015 edition will be the first time that Nigerian undergraduates will take part in the annual global business competition. Nigeria’s representatives to the competition will emerge at the end of a keenly contested national final in Lagos.

The Nigerian final sponsored by Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Limited also enjoys support from Guinness Nigeria Plc, Nigerian Breweries Plc and Mara Mentors.

The teams that will take part in the national final include Dream Team from University of Ilorin, Team Galatic from the Obafemi Awolowo University, N-Ergy from Obafemi Awolowo University and FUTOITES Business Team from Federal University of Technology Owerri. They were shortlisted from 95 entries received from 17 higher institutions across Nigeria.


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