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The Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Ltd., a subordinate of the Coca-Cola Hellenic Beverage Company (CCHBC), has commenced the 2025 variation of its Youth Empowered (YE) Tour, with Kaduna hosting the archetypal halt connected September 29 and 30.
In its eighth year, the Youth Empowered inaugural was launched successful 2017 to supply young radical with entrepreneurship, vocation development, and integer literacy skills. It has trained thousands of Nigerian youths and has already surpassed its people of reaching 1 cardinal young radical crossed 28 countries wherever Coca-Cola HBC operates.
Speaking connected the caller edition, NBC’s Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Director, Soromidayo George, said the programme underscores the company’s semipermanent concern successful Nigeria’s socio-economic development.
“At NBC, we judge Nigerian youths are cardinal to the country’s progress. By empowering them with applicable skills, mentorship, and opportunities, we are shaping their idiosyncratic futures and contributing to the nation’s corporate growth,” she said.
The 2025 variation volition diagnostic interactive workshops, capacity-building sessions, and mentorship opportunities to equip participants with applicable insights into concern sustainability, vocation advancement, and integer growth.
In a bid to marque the programme much impactful, NBC earlier this twelvemonth sponsored prime beneficiaries to an intensive culinary masterclass, wherever 3 winners received N1 cardinal each to enactment their businesses successful the nutrient and hospitality sector. Ten different participants were placed wrong NBC to summation applicable workplace experience.
The Kaduna flag-off marks the opening of a nationwide circuit that volition besides instrumentality the inaugural to Ondo, Port Harcourt, Edo, Benue, Niger, Jos, and Delta states. This follows the 2024 edition, which engaged youths successful Abuja, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Enugu, Lagos, Kano, Anambra, and Maiduguri.
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