The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Mark Woyongo, has called on the youth to focus on their studies and strive to achieve the best in their academic field or chosen vocation.
Mr Woyongo noted that there could not be employment for the youth if they did not have the requisite employable skills and that education and training were essential to youth employment.
The Minister said this when he launched a book, "The Giant Leap to Greatness," on Thursday at Navrongo in the Upper East region.
The Book was written by Mr Albert Achari, Director of Building Greatness, a non governmental organization working to empower the youth in character modification and elimination of moral decadence.
Mr Woyongo said government had plans to provide every district in the country with a Technical and Vocational Training Institute as well as Apprenticeship Training and Placement Centre by the end of its first four-year term in office and that the north would not be left out.
He said unemployment was a big problem, and as a medium-term measure, government would soon undertake a comprehensive review of the curricula of all institutions, both secondary and tertiary in consultation with stakeholders to make the school system relevant to the labour market.
Mr Achari said the book was meant to redirect the youth from practicing social vices such as alcoholism and smoking and encourage them to build personal integrity and principles of personal success.
He called on the government to ban the consumption of alcohol and public smoking and appealed to the older generation to help reform the youth.
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