L – R: Blessing Omosebi, Uchechukwu Fredricks, Ebuka Ughamadu, Sarah Onabanjo, Emmanuel Anyanwu, all of Caro Favoured College – 2018 winners of the JA Africa Company of the Year with Simi Nwogugu, Executive Director, Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN), during a Media Parley to announce activities for JAN’s 20th anniversary.
Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN), Nigeria’s largest non-profit economic education-focused organization, has restated its commitment to reach one million Nigerian youths and young adults by the end of its 20th anniversary year.
Simi Nwogugu, Executive Director, JAN, made the pledge during a press briefing to mark the organization’s 20th anniversary. According to her, the organization is dedicated to empowering young people to succeed in a global economy and has helped bridge the gap between the classroom and the workplace. Since its launch in 1999, JAN has reached over 900,000 children and young adults across the nation.
She said “After two decades, our core aim of preparing young people for the real world remains as important as ever. We are thrilled that for the past 20 years, our programs have supported our incredible youth by showing them how to generate and effectively manage wealth, create jobs for their communities and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Skills that are so important in securing their financial future.”
While expressing confidence that the non-profit organization would achieve its objective of reaching a million young adults, she called on key players in the private and public sectors to partner with JAN to improve the delivery of practical education, and particularly entrepreneurial education, in order to address Nigeria’s youth bulge and growing rate of unemployment.
Nwogugu continued: “Every year, over 1 million would-be university students enter the workforce without tertiary education or appropriate training. The inability of many young men and women to obtain the requisite STEM skills that are in high demand has rendered them unattractive to the 21st-century employer. This is why some of our programs will focus on digital to unlock its potential for the benefit of the country. We are more committed than ever to our mission of ensuring our youth have the values, skills, and confidence to secure their financial future.”
In 2018, JAN students and programs won several awards including the first Google Impact Challenge in Nigeria, JA Africa Company of the Year Award (Best Student Company in Africa) and the FedEx Access Award which recognizes the business that best demonstrates the ability to cross national boundaries and succeed as a global business.
L – R: Simi Nwogugu, Executive Director, Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN); Niyi Yusuf, Chairman, JAN Board and Managing Partner, Verraki Partners; Ndifreke Okwuegbunam, Head of Programs, Aspire Coronation Trust Foundation and Rufai Ladipo, JAN Board Member and CEO, Agile Communications Limited during a Media Parley to announce plans for JAN’s 20th Anniversary celebrations held at the Elion Hotel, Lagos, recently.
L – R: Niyi Yusuf, Chairman, Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN) Board and Managing Partner, Verraki Partners; Simi Nwogugu, Executive Director, JAN; Ndifreke Okwuegbunam, Head of Programs, Aspire Coronation Trust Foundation and Rufai Ladipo, JAN Board Member and CEO, Agile Communications Limited during a Media Parley to announce plans for JAN’s 20th Anniversary celebrations held at Elion Hotel, Lagos, recently.
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