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Northern Report
September 6, 2025 by Our Reporter
A technology and innovation company, Elite Logistics and Development Services Limited, has announced plans to embark on a training programme for at least 40,000 youths in the North Central region of the country on the fabricating and use of its solar-powered kiosk, called Elite Smart Kiosk.
The training programme which commences in the last quarter of the year will have at least 1,000 beneficiary from each of the 36 States, including the FCT.
In a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, Mr. David Adesanya, the Group Managing Director of the company, said this is a strategic plan by the organization to ensure that the youths end the year on a positive note, with a skill that will usher them into robust economic opportunity in the new year.
According to him, the solar-powered kiosk has a humongous economic value chain that can lift people from obscurity to prosperity, urging that governments, non-governmental organizations and MDAs should adopt it as an empowerment tool.
The solar kiosk, which is a compartment designed for diverse purposes, from mobile healthcare dispensary units to exhibition stands, unisex salons, convenience stores, display retail outlets, ICT booths, security centers, multimedia centers, barbing shops, POS banking services and more.
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Several others opportunities are inherent in this empowerment scheme as people would be trained in all skills for local fabrication and construction of the Solar kiosk. Different fabricating process of setting up of the Smart solar kiosk will involve carpentry handwork, electric connections, solar panel installations and others which would be a form of employment through skill acquisition training, aimed at providing manpower engagements for Nigerian youths.
Highlighting the advantages of the innovation, Mr. Adesanya said the Elite Smart Kiosk is efficiently reliable, powered by solar, aesthetically designed with low maintenance costs and supports direct employment and empowerment opportunities for young Nigerians.
He noted that it will provide solutions to political office holders, NGOs, philanthropists, humanitarian organizations, federal, state, and local governments, as well as notable personalities across Nigeria and Africa seeking means to revolutionize empowerment for the teeming unemployed youths in the country.
He added that young Nigerians of all ages, including 40 and above have no reason to fail as the solution they are looking for to unlock their potentials is available with this smart kiosk.
According to him, the training programme will teach beneficiaries how the kiosk is constructed, depending on the peculiar purposes they could be used for.
He called on youths of Kogi, Benue, Niger, Plateau and Kwara to come out in their large numbers and take advantage of this great opportunity to economically empower themselves.
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