The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme(NEIP) with Support from the Ministry of Finance has launched an ambitious programme aimed at training 100,000 Ghanaian Youth.
The skills for jobs project are expected to create an impact on 120 jobs across the length and breadth of the country through phone repairs, cosmetics, bread making, jewellery, pedicure and manicure, decor, makeup artistry, key cutting and CCTV installation.
The Deputy Minister of Finance also Special Guest of the launch, Dr. Stephen Amoah alluded that we are in a dispensation where creating regular or corporate jobs has been a challenge.
According to him, looking at the job space in Ghana the only way as a youth is to develop a skill, meaning the future is at your own perusal to succeed.
The deputy Finance minister urged the youth to take skills for the job project very seriously, adding that in this era you need to commit yourself and acquire skills now for the future.
He added that the youth should not blame anybody in future if they let this golden opportunity go wasted because in more advanced countries people with skills earn more than those with corporate.
Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, the Chief Executive Officer of the NEIP admonished that Nana Addo and Bawumia led administration believes that youth entrepreneurship is the key to unlocking the potential of young people, creating jobs and stimulating real job problems.
To him close to 2 million Ghanaian Youth has been empowered by National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme through skills training since 2017.
He added that NEIP will continue to use their platform to impact and nurture the can-do spirit and impact entrepreneurship among the vast majority of the Ghanaian Youth.
