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Apprentice Africa winner rates Nigerian business opportunity high

By AHAOMA KANU

THE winner of the Apprentice Africa Business Reality TV show, Ghanaian Isaac Dankyi-Koranteng, has rated as high the business opportunity that exists in Nigeria.

Speaking at a press briefing recently, the 30 year old father of one who took home the grand prize securing a job that would earn him $200 000 (N23m) as well as a brand new car said that despite the fact that the West will like to portray the country negatively, Nigeria is still the Big Brother in Africa.

“Nigeria is a country that gets involved in giving aids and bringing peace to many African countries. And again, there exists a very huge business opportunities in the country that one needs only to come down to Nigeria to understand that they are honest and hardworking people,” he said.

Issac who attributed his ability to listen more than talking, said promised that with the status he now enjoys, he would certainly come out with business strategies that would be of benefit to Africans in the area of youth development and charity.

“I have two projects I wish to embark on first is a youth development initiative for which I'm collaborating the other 17 contestants, everybody is on board. We'll see how best we fast-track things. We really want to inspire and empower young Africans to believe first in God and then in themselves and move on to greater heights…secondly I have a personal project, a charity project where I intend to set up a heart foundation because the heart is the greatest gift you can give to somebody, and it's the greatest love you can show. I wish to help people in Africa with heart conditions acquire the best medical attention and surgical transplants available in the world,” he said.

He was favoured to become the winner after his brilliance in carrying out his task effectively, though quiet, reserved and intelligent, his ideas have been acknowledged as the best in the 17 weeks period the show lasted.
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