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EnterpriseNGR, Nigeria’s foremost advocator for the Financial and Professional Services (FPS) assemblage has marked different milestone with the graduation of Cohorts IV and V of its flagship ‘Youth of Enterprise’ (YOE) Internship Initiative.
The graduation ceremony, held connected Thursday, September 25, 2025, carried the taxable “Game Changers astatine Work: Innovate, Disrupt, Lead.” It spotlighted the organisation’s ngo to tackle Nigeria’s unemployment and underemployment situation by equipping young radical with globally applicable skills, workplace readiness, and nonrecreational competence.
Since its inception successful 2022, the YOE programme has trained and empowered much than 2,300 young Nigerians, making it 1 of the country’s astir impactful platforms for workforce development.
Speaking astatine the event, CEO of EnterpriseNGR, Obi Ibekwe, reaffirmed the organisation’s content successful the powerfulness of radical arsenic Nigeria’s top resource.
“Through YOE, we are investing successful the aboriginal of our federation by empowering young Nigerians with the skills, confidence, and resilience to pb successful a rapidly changing world. Cohorts IV and V correspond the innovation and tenacity that volition thrust our system forward,” she said.
Head of Programmes, EnterpriseNGR, Joy Abara, highlighted the transformative quality of the initiative.
“The Youth of Enterprise Internship Programme is much than training; it is simply a level that connects ambition with opportunity. Today’s graduates are leaving with not conscionable cognition but the mindset to innovate, disrupt, and lead. Their journeys animate america to support scaling the programme’s scope and impact,” she stated.
Delivering the keynote address, Co-Founder/Executive Director of MindtheGapNG, Tayo Olosunde, urged the graduates to clasp their relation arsenic crippled changers.
“The aboriginal of enactment belongs to those who tin reimagine possibilities and make solutions wherever others spot barriers. Your work is not lone to enactment successful the workforce but to signifier it, innovate with courage, disrupt with purpose, and pb with integrity.”
The lawsuit besides featured glowing testimonials from YOE leader partners, who praised the professionalism, creativity, and workplace readiness displayed by the interns. Interns themselves shared stories of transformation, describing however the programme reshaped their skills, mindset, and vocation outlook.
As portion of the celebration, top-performing groups from Cohorts IV and V were recognised for innovative solutions to real-life assemblage challenges. The designation underscored YOE’s accent connected excellence, teamwork, and enactment successful practice.
Graduates from the latest cohorts interned with immoderate of Nigeria’s astir respected organisations, including Access Bank, CSCS, Chapel Hill Denham, First Ally, Coronation, Investment One Plc, Custodian, PwC Nigeria, Polaris Bank, SaroAfrica International Limited, Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation, and FBNQuest. These manufacture partnerships, EnterpriseNGR noted, stay a driving unit down the occurrence of the initiative.
Moderated by Head of Corporate Communications and Branding astatine EnterpriseNGR, Iyinoluwa Adunade, the lawsuit drew notable stakeholders who lauded the initiative’s relation successful bridging Nigeria’s widening skills gap.
She said the ceremonial yet celebrated not conscionable the achievements of Cohorts IV and V but besides the broader imaginativeness of EnterpriseNGR’s Youth of Enterprise programme, to make a pipeline of skilled, resilient, and innovative young Nigerians who volition alteration the country’s workforce and signifier the aboriginal of its nonrecreational services sector.
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