He stated on Citi FM’s news analysis program, The Big Issue that officials of the National Service Secretariat (NSS) which is overseeing the programme, will be summoned to brief them on the strategies being employed by the Secretariat as part of the programme. We will invite them [NSS] and see what’s going on in there.”The National Service Secretariat is set to spend about $300,000 on a two-year workshop programme at MIT, involving a series of sessions geared towards exploring solutions to reduce youth unemployment. 17 persons, chosen from youth agencies, as well as persons from academia and corporate Ghana, will fly to the US periodically, between now to 2019. Last week, NDC Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak raised issues with the amount spent on the programme. Mr. Ussif maintained that MIT has “the potential of helping us with the research and analysis to be able to come out with a feasible module.”

Source: GhanaWeb March 05, 2018 12:00 UTC