Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday inaugurated Kimberly Clark’s new Huggies Diaper Manufacturing Plant in Ikorodu, Lagos State.
The company has invested over $100m in building a state-of-the-art Huggies diaper manufacturing facility in Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos, with the capacity to create over 1,000 direct and indirect jobs that can grow to 5,000 within 3-5 years of operation.
The factory would avail the youths in Ikorodu Federal Constituency and indeed Lagos-Nigeria at large ample opportunities within the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry.
Speaking as a special guest at the event, Vice President Osinbajo said, “This plant, I am told would serve Nigerian consumers with affordable high-quality diapers and I am told it will produce something in the order of about 600 million diapers every year.
– This Day