The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP) with Support from Ministry of Finance has launched an ambitious programme aimed at training 100,000 Ghanaian Youth.

The Skills for Jobs Project is expected to Job creation 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 job has being 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 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 goes wasted,because in more advanced countries people with skills earn more than those with corporate jobs.

SOTS Dr.Stephen Amoah,Deputy Finance minister

Kofi Ofosu Nkansah,The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with 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 millions 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 nature the can do spirit and impacting entrepreneurship among the vast majority of the Ghanaian Youth.