National Youth Council to be restructured

THE government is to restructure and resource the National Youth Council (NYC) to enable it to carry out its mandate of empowering the Ghanaian youth.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak, said empowering the NYC was in line with the government's policy and agenda for developing the potential of the youth.
The minister said this in a speech read on his behalf by the National Co-ordinator of the National Youth Council, Mr Archibald Donkoh, at a personality development seminar organised by the Communications Business Education Link (ComBEL) in Accra at the weekend.
Alhaji Mubarak said the government recognised the immense potential of the youth in the country and was in the process of putting in place the right framework to provide the youth with employable skills for them to be able to contribute meaningfully towards national development.
“In this regard, the government is committed to addressing the challenges facing the National Youth Council in order for it to be in a better position to carry out its mandate of empowering the youth,” he said.
Alhaji Mubarak said the government alone could not do everything but would partner with civil society organisations like the ComBEL in an attempt to empower the youth to play their role in developing the nation.
In his own words, Mr Donkoh called on the youth to make themselves available for the numerous opportunities the government would offer and shy away from social vices that would not benefit them.
The president of the ComBEL, Mr Moses Katamani, underscored the importance of building an attractive personality to gain the confidence, admiration and support of others in the world of business.
Mr Katamani said that one could only be attracted to others when they consciously built a personality that attracted others to them.
He encouraged the youth to make every effort to building this personality.
“For you to progress and succeed in any business, your own personality counts as an important ingredient,” he added.
The Executive Director of the League of Living Legends, Mr Dennis Totimeh, addressed the youth on how to secure their financial security and suggested various forms of investment to the youth.
Mr Totimeh appealed to the youth to put aside part of their income for investment.
“The world today is for only people who make money and consciously save towards future projects,” he stated.
He gave instances of people who spent most of their life time working but had nothing to show during retirement,
“You are aware of many individuals who have to change their age in order to work for longer years, because they never prepared for the future, ” he said.
He encouraged the participants to cultivate the culture of investing the little they made in order to enjoy early retirement.
Other speakers included Mr Akpeko Agbevade, a marketing executive and Mr Bright Adzroe, an administrator with the Internal Revenue Service, Ms Phyllis Salu, and Mr D. Wellington, both of the ComBEL.