General News of Tuesday, 16 April 2019Source: Myjoyonline.comGovernment announces plans to train youth to fix streetlightsMinister for Youth and Sports, Isaac AsiamahThe Minister for Youth and Sports has said that his outfit will soon introduce a programme to train the youth in how to repair broken streetlights across the country. Isaac Asiamah told the Public Account Committee [PAC] of Parliament Tuesday that the programme is aimed at providing jobs for the youth and more street lights to illuminate the dark streets, Joseph Opoke Gapo has reported. “What I have observed is that we purchase these streetlights all the time but due to lack of maintenance, they go off after few months. According to Ignatius Baffour Awuah, these jobs were only in the formal sector and "so what happened in the informal sector is not even accounted for here." “We are going to make vocational education more attractive, it will also be free.

Source: GhanaWeb April 16, 2019 18:22 UTC