MTN Nigeria today announced the appointment of Mr. Karl Toriola as the CEO designate. His appointment is effective 1st March 2021, providing enough time for an orderly handover. Mr. Toriola is currently the Vice President: West and Central Africa (WECA), excluding Nigeria and Ghana, a position he assumed in 2016. During that period, he […]
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MTN Nigeria today announced that its Chief Marketing Officer, Rahul De, is vacating his position to assume a new role within the MTN Group. Effective November 1st Rahul will become Chief Executive Officer, MTN Liberia. Rahul was appointed Chief Marketing Officer of MTN Nigeria in 2015 and went on to drive the sustained growth of […]
In June 2020, MTN Nigeria commenced a free data offer enabling primary and secondary school students to access educational content. Four months later, over 500,000 students are utilising the daily 500mb data. With the closure of schools to mitigate further spread of COVID-19, the intervention was done in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of […]
The MTN Foundation has commenced a call-for-entries for the fourth phase of its ICT and Business Skills Training programme. The programme organised in partnership with some of its ecosystem partners – Google, Oracle and Cisco – will expose 1,500 Nigerian youth to the latest development in entrepreneurship and digital marketing. This year’s edition of […]
In a bid to support the fight against the Coronavirus disease, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) along with its national society Nigerian Red Cross (NRC) has started the distribution of PPEs and risk communications efforts to the tune of N228 Million to support its COVID-19 interventions in Nigeria. This […]
World Cleanup Day, celebrated globally on September 19, 2020, saw diverse people come together to combat the solid waste problem through numerous community cleanup activities. To mark this day, Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited partnered with two local NGOs – African Cleanup Initiative and Mental and Environmental Development Initiative for Children (MEDIC), on cleanup activities across Lagos […]
The women of the Magboro Makogi community will not be forgetting the month of August in a hurry. Through a Coca-Cola Foundation-sponsored program; Catalyst For Change, over 1,000 women were, over four weeks, trained on relevant skills with more than 200 empowered to start their own businesses. It is not news that in Nigeria, there […]
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Coca-Cola Drives Partnerships Towards Plastic Waste Reduction by Creating Green Recycling Hubs Across Abuja and Lagos.
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Coca-Cola, through its philanthropic arm, The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF) has recently provided a grant to the Initiative For The Advancement of Waste Management in Africa (W.A.S.T.E AFRICA), a non-governmental organisation, to promote waste as a valuable currency for social good and economic inclusion through the establishment of green recycling hubs across Abuja. The NGO […]
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New advertising campaign starts with a moving manifesto for change by George The Poet Coca-Cola Nigeria launches a new campaign, “Open Like Never Before”, its first since Covid-19 changed the world in so many ways. Coca-Cola in Nigeria temporarily suspended all planned marketing activity in April, redirecting resources towards communities and supporting its most affected […]
For a company as long-standing as Coca-Cola, it is quite remarkable that it has managed to stay well within the times, adapting to different market trends and changes across the world. In an interview with Channels TV, we got to find out just how meticulous Coca-Cola’s strategy is not only in partnering with key […]