In a bid to enhance its international standing and bring assistance to teeming African youths, a United States based media group, Excel Media Global Group, USA, has activated the Excel International Envoys Program to provide practical empowerment to targeted youths in Africa.
The program, which was inaugurated at the Imo Concorde Hotel, Owerri, Nigeria’s southeast region on May 11, 2019, is expected to help reduce youth unemployment through an organized business engineering, participants’ exposure and media promotions campaign.
Speaking to newsmen after the occasion, the Publisher and Chairman of Excel Global Media Group USA, Mr. Boniface Ihiasota, noted that the program was conceived in reaction to the growing youth redundancy and restiveness in the African society due to harsh economic realities.
According to him, the program would also help the group fulfill its corporate social responsibilities to host communities in Africa.
Tracing his own humble beginning, Mr. Ihiasota noted that he had hustled the streets as a youth in Nigeria and then became a local photographer, before attaining his current top-of-career status with international accolades just because he believes in creative ingenuity and diligence.
Some participants who spoke to the press expressed satisfaction with the program’s concepts, hoping that it will live up to expectations.
15 pioneer were inaugurated among whom are talented young men and women drawn from modeling, acting, music and photographic fields.
The participants would be involved with various spheres of Excel International operations on part time, while being promoted to stardom on the media group’s platforms.
Other resource persons present at the technical session include, Mr. Timothy Enietan-Matthews, the Managing Editor, Chuma Mmeka, an accomplished actor and poet, who doubles as Coordinator of the program and Queen Steiner, a nationally rated beauty queen.
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