{"id":462854,"date":"2018-02-09T00:51:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/the-youth-is-the-biggest-asset-of-our-nation-osafo-maafo\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T00:51:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:51:36","slug":"the-youth-is-the-biggest-asset-of-our-nation-osafo-maafo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/the-youth-is-the-biggest-asset-of-our-nation-osafo-maafo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Youth is the biggest asset of our nation \u2013 Osafo-Maafo"},"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,  8 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-08<\/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\/31176995.295.jpg\" alt=\"Yaw Osafo Maafo Launch2018\" title=\"Yaw Osafo Maafo Launch2018\" width=\"295\" height=\"173\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo<\/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\/1518137496_330_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo has described the youthful population of the country as the biggest asset to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the launch of a twelve-week online digital, marketing and entrepreneurship training programme in Accra, the Senior Minister said the youth make up 60% of Ghana\u2019s population, therefore, the training programme will not only give an extension to Ecobank but will go a long way to attract other financial institutions to come on board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease let us see you come out and create a job for yourself, make Ghana better which will encourage not only Ecobank to expand but will attract other financial institutions to get into it\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>He further advised beneficiaries of the programme not to disappoint the government.<\/p>\n<p>The online digital, marketing and entrepreneurship training programme is to engage a critical mass of young people who will be equipped with the requisite technology-driven entrepreneurial skills to use the internet, especially social media to market their products and services as well as start virtual offices in a bid to reduce unemployment in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The twelve weeks training programme is targeted at persons between the ages of 15 to 35 with a minimum knowledge in Information and Communication Technology across all ten Regions of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>ECOBANK has offered to hire the 3,000 participants who have been selected for a three-month training programme in online digital marketing and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>The programme is organised by the National Youth Authority in collaboration with the Accra Digital Center and the Ghana-India Kofi Annan ICT Center of Excellence.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/bYo8cunq-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: -1 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, 8 February 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2018-02-08 play videoSenior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo has described the youthful population of the country as the biggest asset to the nation. 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