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South Sudan understudying Ghana’s NSS

  A delegation from South Sudan on Friday, October 22, called on the Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Osei Assibey Antwi to understudy Ghana’s National Service Scheme in order to replicate it in their country. The delegation which was led by the Minister for Youth and Sports, Peter Baptist Abakar, included a representative from the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Aluel Beda and Apio Adelino as well as a UNDP representative to South Sudan, Christiana Ahenkora. A statement signed by the Director of public affairs at NSS, Armstrong Esaah, said the South Sudan team was exploring the possibility of signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the management of NSS for knowledge sharing on youth development. The press release quoted Abakar as saying: “We have done good feasibility studies and we have noticed that you have rich experience that we want to copy and paste in South Sudan,” he said. Youth development He said the government of South Sudan had begun...