YES Criteria and Process

Who Can Apply

To be eligible for consideration of your business plan, the following criteria must be satisfied:

• You must be a Ghanaian citizen (show proof) and no more than 35 years old;
• You must have completed at least Junior High School (JHS);
• Your business plan/idea must create at least five (5) job opportunities and have a high potential for growth and job creation;
• The proposed business must be situated within the national borders of Ghana and must employ Ghanaians;
• The proposed business must not involve gambling or the production or distribution of any alcoholic beverage, tobacco or weapon. It must not involve any activity that is illegal under the laws of Ghana;
• You must be prepared and available to explain and defend your business plan/idea and provide consent for the possible filming of the process;
• You must present two letters of recommendation or reference (YES reserves the right to carry out further background checks on you).

YES Secretariat invites business proposals from young Ghanaians

The Youth Enterprise Support (YES) Secretariat has announced that it will start receiving business plans, ideas and proposals from young and prospective entrepreneurs on Monday September 01, 2014. 

According to Coordinator for the YES Secretariat, Kojo Adu Asare, interested persons who meet the published Eligibility Criteria have between September 01, and October 10, 2014 to submit their business plans, or ideas for consideration. 

YES, an initiative of President John Mahama, was launched on August 12, 2014 with a seed capital of GH¢10 million. The Youth Enterprise Support Initiative has been designed to help Ghana's young and innovative population turn great ideas into thriving business enterprises.

Mr.Adu Asare, said to qualify for the consideration of a business plan; “one must be a Ghanaian citizen and below the age of 35, completed at least Junior High School and submit a business plan that shows the ability to create a minimum of five job opportunities within a certain time frame.” 

Using the Command Prompt to Reveal Hidden Files

Can't see those files on your drive? Some viruses leave behind nasty side effects, even when your antivirus program has cleaned the actual virus from your computer. If your desktop icons are missing and your C: drive appears blank, don’t panic — your files haven’t gone permanently. Common viruses, such as the Windows 7 Recovery virus, will hide your files in an attempt to coerce you into paying for the virus’s removal. When you view your desktop or click on your C: drive, it may appear that all of your files have been deleted, but they haven’t — the virus has simply hidden them. You can restore them easily using a simple command prompt trick that works in Windows XP, Vista and 7. I've even used this trick in Windows 8 and it worked perfectly.

Click the Start button in the lower left corner of your task bar. Type cmd in the search box at the bottom of the menu and press Enter. If you’re using Windows XP, click Run and type cmd into the Run box.

You will see this screen:

Type attrib -s -h -r c:/*.* /s /d and press Enter to execute the command. The command prompt window should look like this after you’ve typed the command:

Ghanaian Varsities Reopening Postponed

Government has postponed the reopening date for the 2014/2015 academic year of all tertiary institutions in the country for two weeks.

Prof. Naana Opoku Agyeman, Minister of Education

According to a statement signed by the Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman, ‘’acting on the advice of the Inter-Ministerial Team on the Ebola viral disease, government has decided that the commencement of the 2014/2015 academic year be postponed by at least two weeks’’.

UCC postpones re-opening date indefinitely

University of Cape Coast (UCC)  has indefinitely postponed its re-opening date due to what it describes as circumstance beyond control

Though reasons for the postponement was not clearly stated, it is believed that it is as a result of the strike by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG).

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) declared an indefinite strike in July 2014 to protest the government’s decision to scrap the payment of book and research allowances to tertiary institutions.

The government has stated that it will scrap the payment of book and research allowances  and establish a national research fund instead.

UCC was initially scheduled to re-open school on the 2nd and 9th August, 2014 for fresh and continuing students respectively.

A press statement issued by the University noted that new reopening arrangement will be announced later.

It further entreated students to keep checking the electronic and print media as well as the University’s website – www.ucc.edu.gh for more updates.

Read the Full Statement below

It is hereby announced for the information of all fresh and continuing students of the University of Cape Coast as well as the general public that, due to circumstances beyond the control of University Management, the re-opening date of the University for the 2014/2015 Academic Year has been postponed INDEFINITELY.

New re-opening arrangements will be announced later. All are entreated to keep checking in the electronic and print media as well the University website for UPDATES.

We regret the inconvenience caused.

REGISTRAR,

7TH AUGUST, 2014.

It is our prayer that this will not become a repeat of the POTAG situation. We hope the government and UTAG, POTAG will find a lasting solution to this impase.

Life is like a Camera

CONGRATULATIONS to the Black Princesses of Ghana

The Black Princesses of Ghana beat Canada, the host, in their U-20 World Cup opener. The Ghana female under 20 national team caused a stir earlier this morning in the ongoing FIFA Women’s Under 20 World Cup by beating host nation Canada by a goal to secure their first win of the competition.

Ghana 1 - 0 Canada

The Black Princesses jubilate after scoring their first goal of the tournament

This win puts Ghana in second place, behind Korea DPR on goal difference after the Asian side claimed a 2-1 victory over Finland in the other match.

Addressing the press right after the game, Coach Bashir Hayford hailed his team’s exploits but insists that nothing was going to come cheap for his side in the on-going competition.

“It was a good game, I appreciated all that I’ve seen tonight. And at the end of the day, the best team won,” said Hayford in Toronto.

“We already learnt our first lesson: in a World Cup, nothing will be easy. We suffered, but we won.” – he added

Sherifatu Sumaila (second right), the goalscorer, celebrates with team mates

Sherifatu Sumaila set the Princesses off to a flying start when she scored the all-important goal in the 22^nd minute to hand Bashir Hayford’s side the needed three points, before they face 2006 champions Korea DPR on Friday.