YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AGENCY Archives

30 Aug

YEA Showcase Electric Taxi Programme For Okada Riders

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The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) is set to introduce an innovative Electric Taxi Programme aimed at offering an alternative livelihood for interested Okada riders and other youth in the country. The initiative seeks to transition riders from motorcycles to environmentally friendly electric taxis, providing a safer and more sustainable means of earning a living. Through this programme, YEA aims to empower young people by offering them the opportunity to participate in the burgeoning electric vehicle sector, contributing to the country’s green energy goals while creating jobs. The electric taxis will be available to interested individuals, particularly Okada riders looking for…

10 Aug

YEA To Launch Garment And Textile Employment Module

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The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has announced its decision to launch a new module on Monday, August 14th, 2023. The new module is aimed at creating employment opportunities for young people in the garment and textile industry. The module is under the name “Youth in Garment and Textiles”. It will provide training and apprenticeship opportunities to thousands of young Ghanaians interested in becoming tailors and dressmakers. “Ahead of the launch, the Garment and Textile module has generated positive response from the stakeholders as two thousand (2,000) registered beneficiaries have so far been shortlisted as trainees with five hundred (500) Mastercraftmen,…

30 Nov

YEA Signs M.O.U With INZAG Germany GmBH To Recruit 800 Skilled Artisans

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Following remarks by the Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) at the recently held Job Fairs to pursue skills training, acquisition and development to create sustainable jobs for the teeming unemployed youth, that vision has began yielding results with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (M.O.U) between the Agency and INZAG Germany GmBH, a German Construction firm, for the recruitment of about eight hundred (800) youth for the construction of the Eastern Corridor roads from Ashaiman roundabout to Akosombo Junction. At a brief signing ceremony held at the head office of the YEA in Accra on…

28 Nov

YEA In Partnership With Ghana Prisons Service Recruits Over 2000 Personnel As Prisons Office Assistants

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On Friday, 25 November 2022, the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) commenced training for over five hundred (500) personnel as Prison Office Assistants (POA) at the Prison Officers’ Training School in Ankaful in partnership with the Ghana Prisons Service. The personnel, currently under training, form part of the over two thousand (2000) young men and women who are being recruited across the country to support the Prisons Service delivering their mandate of transforming in-mates into socially acceptable characters suitable for reintegration and conducive cohabitation in society. At the opening ceremony, the Deputy Chief Executive (Operations) of YEA, Alhaji Bashiru Ibrahim, speaking…

20 Sep

YEA Disowns KMA City Guard Who Assaulted Trader

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The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has distanced itself from the disturbing incident which saw a purported YEA personnel attached to the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly’s city guard beat up a trader. The Agency says the culprit, who has been identified as Bright Agyei, had his contract exhausted and terminated before the first week of September; hence they cannot account for his actions neither can they be responsible for his gross brutal assault on the trader. In a disturbing video that has gone viral, a female trader at Kejetia, believed to be in her 50s, was seen maltreated and beaten to pulp…