The restoration of the allowance was noted as a key New Patriotic Party (NPP) campaign promise, after the John Mahama administration scrapped the allowance to allow the various training colleges to admit more students.

It earmarked a students’ loan scheme in place of the allowance.

But the Mahama government later agreed to pay a reduced allowance for the trainees temporarily, after protests, until such a time that they are finally moved onto the students’ loan scheme.

About 58,000 trainee nurses and midwives are expected to benefit from this restoration.

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, last week defended the decision to launch the restoration of allowances with a ceremony, as opposed to something simpler.

“We are launching [the restoration of the allowance] to demonstrate to Ghanaians that the government has honored its promise. We don’t want to hide in a room somewhere, pay the allowance and that is the end of it. Ghanaians should know what we are doing,” the Minister of Health told the Media after appearing before Parliament.

He stressed that it was necessary “to communicate the good works of our President, and that is why are we are launching. People are happy; they want to jubilate about it and we want them to jubilate about it” he said.

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By: citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Walker’s lifeless body was found at the Busia Beach Thursday  night. He was among four people who died on the spot but his body was not found after several rescue efforts.

Deputy General Secretary of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union of the TUC, Francis Sallah, confirmed the news to Citi FM.

”The missing guy has been found. His body was washed ashore  and was found at the Busia beach,” he said.

He went on to expressed how shocked the union still is over the disaster.

Eight people, comprising two crew and six passengers, were on board the Ivorian registered helicopter when the accident occurred.

They included five Ghanaians, a Nigerian, a British and a French national.

Out of the eight, four survived, three died and one person was missing [Now found].

Three people were confirmed dead after a helicopter carrying eight passengers belonging to LukOil crashed into the sea on 8th May, 2014.a

Three of the passengers were rescued.

The accident, according to officials of the GHANA Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), happened four nautical miles off the coast of Takoradi and about six kilometres from the Takoradi Airport.

By: Evans Effah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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