{"id":460506,"date":"2018-02-01T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/01\/president-honours-zibrim-yamusah-general-news-2018-02-01\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T16:51:25","slug":"president-honours-zibrim-yamusah-general-news-2018-02-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/01\/president-honours-zibrim-yamusah-general-news-2018-02-01\/","title":{"rendered":"President honours Zibrim Yamusah | General News 2018-02-01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  1 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>thefinderonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-01<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/33582110.295.jpg\" alt=\"Akufo Addo Ziblim\" title=\"Akufo Addo Ziblim\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with Mr Zibrim Yamusah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517503885_44_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Chief Executive Officer of Yamusah Group of Companies, Mr Zibrim Yamusah has received glowing praise from President Nana Akufo-Addo for his efforts at empowering women from deprived communities across the country, especially the Northern region.<\/p>\n<p>Under his Development Initiative for Africa (GADIA) Advocates Charge Awards, the President maintains that empowered women play key roles in the development of any nation, and \u201cthe best ways of mitigating poverty and guaranteeing the progress and prosperity our country and continent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Yamusah was amongst eight business personalities and entrepreneurs who distinguished themselves in their fields of endeavor and ensured that the lots of women were elevated wherever they found themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The eight notable business people and entrepreneurs were rewarded by President Akufo-Addo for promoting gender equality in their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Led by the President, the entrepreneurs pledged and agreed to be gender advocates for GADIA, acknowledging and affirming the importance of gender parity in the area of business and entrepreneurship within their companies.<\/p>\n<p>Guided by the standards of the Women\u2019s Empowerment Principles of the United Nations (UN) Global Compact, and business\u2019 role in sustainable development, the advocates will be required to espouse the importance of women inclusion in all aspects of national development.<\/p>\n<p>GADIA is the flagship programme for the President\u2019s African Union (AU) Gender and Development Championship. It is built upon the pillars of enhancing women\u2019s economic empowerment through the private sector and increasing women\u2019s political participation.<\/p>\n<p>As AU Gender and Development Champion, the President committed himself to working with key partners and stakeholders towards an Africa in which every woman and girl is fully empowered to realize their potential and contribute to the development of the continent.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo caused to be established the GADIA Advocates Charge (GACH) Award under the theme \u201cMaking Gender Equality the Private Sector\u2019s Business\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The GACH Award is a premier accolade instituted by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo under GADIA to support sustainable contributions towards gender equality and the progress of women.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious GACH Award will be bestowed upon a specific number of prominent businessmen across the continent who will be charged by the President as AU Gender and Development Champion to take concrete and measurable steps within their respective companies to enhance Gender Equality over a particular period of time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Thursday, 1 February 2018 Source: thefinderonline.com 2018-02-01 President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with Mr Zibrim Yamusah Chief Executive Officer of Yamusah Group of Companies, Mr Zibrim Yamusah has received glowing praise from President Nana Akufo-Addo for his efforts at empowering women from deprived communities across the country, especially the Northern region. 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