Adeleye made this known over the weekend at the fifth Entrepreneurial Development Training Series of the YPF where 20 Yoruba youths were trained on cinematography, drone piloting and mobile application development as well as customers management and business development to enhance their customer retention skills and profit maximization drive.
Adeleye added, “In terms of natural and human resources, we are unparalleled. At YPF, our goal is to showcase our innovation and creativity to the world in Yoruba Land. We are committed to promoting Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship and Smart Agriculture in Yoruba Land. Also, we want to re-invent and sustain the cultural legacies of Yoruba Land through Smart clothing.”
The Training Series themed; Promoting knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Yoruba Land, started In November 2020 and had featured training on robotics and smart homes automation, solar technology and paints production/application aimed at promoting knowledge-based entrepreneurship and smart agriculture in Yoruba Land.
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Adeleye rated the fifth training series as the best since inception, promising further improvement on the sixth series coming up in September 2021 in Ado-Ekiti and expressing appreciation to Professor Banji Akintoye led Ilana Omo Oodua (IOO) for volunteering its secretariat in Lagos for the training and Yoruba Intelligentsia Group, Voice of Reason (VOR) for financial support as well as other well-meaning Yoruba people within and beyond the shores of Nigeria.
At the exhibition session held during the graduation ceremony, 13 youths that graduated from the Cinematography and Drone Piloting class displayed a documentary shot, produced and edited by them while seven youths that completed the training on Mobile Application Development exhibited the Mobile Application they developed for YPF.
A graduate trainee on cinematography and drone piloting, Kikelomo Williams, who led the exhibition session for her team, saluted the YPF and the sponsors of the training series, acknowledging that the training is in the right direction of empowering the youths for self-reliance, and calling on well-meaning Yoruba people to support the project because “the future belongs to Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Medicine.”
Present at the exhibition session were retired Professor of Romantics and Comparative Literature, Ade Kukoyi, Chief Executive Officer of New Horizon Computer Learning Centre, Mr Timothy Akano, YPF’s Director of Finance and Administration, Barr. Oladapo Kayode and a PR Consultant, Femi Ojo, amongst others.
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