NBC set to empower 15,000 youths in 2018

The Nigerian Bottling Company Limited, NBC, has said its commitment to youth empowerment remains unshaken as the company is set to empower 15000 youths in 2018. The comapany’s Director, Legal, Public Affairs and Communications, Mrs. Sade Morgan said this during a media chat with journalists in Lagos, recently.

According to Morgan, youth empowerment through various initiatives targeted imparting employability and sharpening their entrepreneurship skills is consistent with the vision of the NBC. She added that in 2017 alone, NBC had empowered not less than 120,000 young women, with some of them now retailers with the company through its Educating Nigerian Girls New Enterprise Programmes.

Explaining that NBC’s youth empowerment and personal development programme are geared towards eradicating poverty and hunger in the country. Morgan said the focus had been on the youth because the future of the country depends on them. On her prt, Public Affairs and Communications manager, Coca cola Nigeria, NBC will scale up its support for sports to encourage the spirit of sportsmanship among youths and help them become more productive and reduce crime.

Her words: “ We want to encourage the spirit of sportsmanship in young adults. It is important that we engage the youth to prevent them from being a tool for criminal activities.’’