{"id":399545,"date":"2018-02-08T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399545"},"modified":"2018-02-08T12:17:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:17:22","slug":"3000-youth-recruited-digital-marketing-program-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/3000-youth-recruited-digital-marketing-program-nana-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"3,000 youth recruited under Digital Marketing program – Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"
President\u00a0Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that 3,000 unemployed youth have been recruited under the Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship programme, which has been launched at the Accra Digital Centre.<\/p>\n
Addressing Parliament in his State of the Nations Address today [Thursday], the President said,\u00a0\u201cwe have launched the Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship Programme at the Accra Digital Centre. This programme, with ten regional training centres, has already recruited 3,000 young, unemployed people, to undergo a 3-month all-expenses-paid training.”<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”43koyoJ9Qxw0xkjvWKL9CPZbpyXwgiuh”]According to him, the three-month all-expense paid training program has Ecobank Ghana on board to take in all the 3000 recruits.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am happy to announce that Ecobank Ghana Ltd has already offered to engage all 3,000 young people, after the training programme. This is just the tip of the iceberg,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He reiterated that the subject of job creation is at the topmost of his list, and that his government has put in place structures to help small and medium scale enterprises and entrepreneurs with the availability of cheaper credit which gives better prospect for jobs.<\/p>\n
He also added that, he is determined to build the future of the country’s youth, and that his government has shown such commitment through the Nation Builders Corps initiative which will take off next month, with a plan to employ 100,000 youth to assist in public sector service delivery.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a start, this government has established the Nation builders Corps to employ 100,000 young persons in 2018 alone, to assist in public sector delivery in health, education agriculture sanitation and the revenue collection department of the Ghana Revenue Authority,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u2018100, 000 jobs in 2018\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr Bawumia reiterated government\u2019s plans to create jobs for 100, 000 unemployed graduates in 2018 through the Nation Builders Corps initiative.<\/p>\n The programme was announced as a government initiative in the 2018 budget to\u00a0provide the jobs<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at a cost of GHc 600 million.<\/p>\n