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By Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Officials of NBU-YEC have given start-up tools to 24 out of 102 youth who were trained on entrepreneurship under the project. The tools include 20 industrial sowing machine, 1 oven, 1 knitting machine, 1 shoe stamp machine and pass set. Total cost of the items is GHs 70,000. Presentation of the

By Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Officers of the NBU-YEC; an SOS Children’s Villages-Netherlands funded project will soon be rolling out a mobile training for persons who have undergone the Family Strengthening Programs (FSP) of the SOS Children’s Village-Ghana. They will equip them with soft skills training as a way of adding up to the hard skills

The vice President of the Ghana Butchers Association and also Ashanti regional chief butcher Chief Ibrahim Wahab Tikuma has implored the government to upgrade Kumasi Abattoir to second-class status to help control the unemployment rate in the country. Chief Ibrahim Wahab Tikuma is confident that if the government takes necessary steps to make his passionate

By Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Officials of Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) have schooled trainees of the No Business as Usual-Youth Empowerment Center (NBU-YEC) project on taxation. They enlightened the young entrepreneurs and those hoping to start their business on the various types of tax, tax law and principle of young entrepreneur, requirements for tax registration, the

Close to 300 women of Ejisu constituency who started a 7-day vocational skills training have completed successfully. They passed out last Friday 26th May 2023 and each was awarded certificate of completion. Trainees were equipped with knowledge on how to make liquid soap, shower gel, parazone, pastries among others. The training was the initiative of

By Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com A capacity building event of the No Business as Usual-Youth Empowerment Center (NBU-YEC) project dubbed “Career Day 2.0” was held successfully on Saturday 29th April 2023. It aimed at equipping participants with knowledge on what employers require from job seekers and characteristic traits they need to possess to sustain jobs they

By Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com The loan delinquency rate of the Soil Research Institute Co-operative Credit Union which stood at 23% last year, is now 10% as at December,2022 and still going down; the Board has disclosed. On Investment, even though some of their funds were locked up, the investment committee, led by the BOD according

By Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com The Ashanti Regional Director for the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has critiqued KMA and duty bearers in the region for making road safety regulations ineffective. Mr. Alexander Ayatah told www.leakynews.net point blank in an interview that until KMA, the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) wake up from their deep sleep

By Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com The School of Business of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has organized a day’s professional forum for students of the college. It specifically targeted 3rd and final year students. The forum took the form of a panel discussion; panelists drawn from the various chartered organisations including Chartered

By Enock Akonnor, enockakonnor2013@gmail.com The European Commission has co-funded with 360,000 euros GreenVETAfrica, a two-year Erasmus+ project to promote a technical vocational pathway for unemployed young people in Nigeria and Ghana in two local training centres. The project is managed by a consortium of three European partners – AREA (Italy), Federazione CNOS-FAP (Italy) and Asociación

By Enock Akonnor, enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Madam Hawah Braimah, CEO for Akaal Skills Development Academy has underscored technology as a contemporary intervention that is really helping the fashion industry. She added that the global fashion industry has evolved and transformed at a rapid pace in recent years, mostly due to the influence of new technology. Speaking to

Story By Enock Akonnor, enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Some accomplished entrepreneurs in Ashanti region on Friday 17th March 2023 engaged beneficiaries of the No Business as Usual-Youth Empowerment Center (NBU-YEC) project in Kumasi. They were called by implementors of the SOS Netherlands funded project (NBU-YEC) to empower trainees by sharing with them traits they (trainees) need to possess

By Enock Akonnor; enockakonnor2013@gmail.com The latest branch of Zonda Tec Ghana Limited; the leading assembling automobile plant and supplier of quality trucks has been opened at Akrofuom-Pakyi No.2 road in Ashanti region. It was commissioned on Tuesday 22nd February 2022 and per records, it is the 8th branch established in the region after the inauguration

KGL GROUP has been adjudged the Business of the Year for the 2022 business year by the Millennium Excellence Foundation at a plush ceremony held at the Labadi Beach Hotel on the 12th of February 2023. The Millennium Excellence Foundation was founded in 1998 and hosted its maiden Prize ceremony on the eve of the

Executive Chairman of the KGL Group and Board Chairman of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, Alex Dadey has called on government to focus on diasporan investment as a solution to Ghana’s economic challenges. In his opening address on Day 1 of the maiden Kwahu Summit under the theme- “AfCFTA: From Ambition to Action- Delivering Prosperity

By Enock Akonnor, Editor-In-Chief enockakonnor2013@gmail.com New trainees of the NBU-Youth Empowerment Center have been empowered by beneficiaries of the former NBU project. The latter’s engagement with the former comprising those of the Alpha, Gamma and Beta cohorts has been marked as the first ever event of the NBU-YEC after their first three weeks of training.

By Enock Akonnor, enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Implementers of the SOS Green Project strongly believe that women’s financial independence is cardinal among measures aimed at reducing their victimization experiences of Violence Against Women. Engaging women of the Sekyere Kumawu District on Friday 25th November 2022, they highlighted financial training as one of the interventions they have rolled out

To support job creation and the growth of local businesses, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation under its European Union in Ghana-funded, GrEEn Project, has organised the second of its Green Regional Job Fair in the Ashanti Region in partnership with the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Association

By Enock Akonnor; enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Government of Ghana has created over 5 million direct and indirect jobs since 2017; Hon Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Minister for Employment and Labor Relations has announced. He has mentioned that government is working at constructing 54 factories in Ashanti region under the One District One Factory Initiative (1D1F) and with 27

By Enock Akonnor, enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Close to 600 male carters of food items (loading boys) in Ashanti region who are members of the Association of Store Boys have embarked on an indefinite strike. On Monday 7th November 2022, they halted their operations and protested against Kumasi businessmen and women; dealers in the wholesaling of food items