President Nana Akufo Addo has endorsed Pius Enam Hadzide as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority (NYA) in pursuant to Section 11(1) of the National Youth Authority Act, 2016 (Act 939).

Mr Hadzide replaces Mr Sylvester Matthew Tetteh, who is currently the Member of Parliament for Bortianor-Ngleshie Amanfro Constituency, in Greater Accra Region.

His appointment takes immediate effect.

Pius Enam Hadzide served as Deputy Minister for Information in the first term administration of President Akufo-Addo.

In 2017, Mr Hadzide also served as Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports.

The NYA’s vision is to provide an environment for youth participation in the cultural-socio-economic and political development using appropriate technology and highly motivated professionals.

Mr Hadzide is expected to “advocate, facilitate and ensure the mainstream of youth development issues into national development frameworks, plans and programmes in all sectors, garner relevant stakeholder interest and commitment to provide the youth with opportunities for skills training, employment, and market information and design appropriate collaboration and partnerships to strengthen the link between education and diversified productivity labour markets”.

Background:

Education
Pius Enam Hadzide was born on June 14, 1979. He attended Bishop Herman College for his WASSCE certificate.

He attended the Accra Technical University, then Accra Polytechnic and later the University of Cape Coast.

Pius Enam Hadzide is also an alumnus of the Theodore Huess Academy of Leadership in Gummersbaach, Germany.

Career

He taught Physics and Mathematics in Akwamuman Secondary School and later worked with the President’s Special Initiative on Distance learning (PSI-DL) as subject coordinator for science.

Pius Enam Hadzide worked as Business Development Manager for the advertising and Media Buying firm , Akroma Ltd between 2011 to 2013 before moving to Ideas Advertising Ltd as General Manager.

In 2012, Pius Enam Hadzide was the New Patriotic Party Parliamentary Candidate for the Ketu North constituency of the Volta Region.

He served briefly as a Deputy Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party before he was appointed in 2015 as Campaign Aide to then flagbearer and now President, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

In 2017, Pius Hadzide was appointed as Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports. In November 2018 he was again appointed as Deputy Minister of Information.

As Deputy Minister, he is responsible for assisting the Minister design and implement policies, projects and programs that disseminate information from the Government of Ghana and to also gather feedback for policy update and refinement.