This was announced by President Akufo-Addo at a grand event to celebrate the restoration of the allowance in the Brong Ahafo region.

[contextly_sidebar id=”gVsTBlA8tcqy0WKsJzrb6pzrBg15b51C”]“For the 2017/2018 academic year, effective September 2017, 58,000 health trainees comprising nurses and midwives, will be paid GH¢400 per person for each of the 10 months of the academic year. This means the government will be spending a total of GH¢ 232 million for this academic year,” Akufo-Addo said.

The previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, scrapped the allowance for trainee nurses in 2013.

It explained that it canceled the regular payments because it prevented the state from investing in infrastructure to admit more students.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the run-up to the December 2016 elections promised to restore the monthly allowance if voted into office.

Following the party’s victory, it assured the trainees of honouring the promise at the start of the academic year.

At  the event to officially launch the reintroduction of the allowance, President Akufo-Addo said his government is committed to investing in education and the future of its youth.

“I have chosen to invest in the education and in the future of our young men and women, and I will use the blessings the Almighty has so amply bestowed on us to this end,” he said.

While addressing concerns over the sustainability of the program, he said, “to the professional cynics and skeptics, those who have made an industry out of constantly asking if this policy is sustainable, I wish to assure them that with the proper management of public finances, the nation’s budget can accommodate such an amount.”

Over 16,000 health workers employed

The president said that the government has employed some 16,000 qualified young nurses and midwives and other health professionals, who, though qualified, had not found employment over the last few years.

He further assured that additional nurses and midwives will be employed before the end of the year, to reduce the backlog of graduate health professionals yet to be employed.

“Next year, we plan to employ even more healthcare workers. To your colleagues in private nursing and midwifery training institutions, who have been at home for a number of years, next year our healthcare institutions will begin recruiting them,” he said.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Indian film director, Rupesh Paul has revealed he is making a film about missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

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The film company, founded by the movie’s director JJ Abrams, tweeted a picture of a branded clapper board with the hashtag “#dayone”.

A dusting of sand on the picture appears to confirm initial scenes are being shot in Abu Dhabi.

On Wednesday, actor Oscar Isaac told BBC Radio 4’s Front Row that production was due to start this month.

The 34-year-old said: “The whole process is under way. We’re shooting in the studios here in London.”

Isaac was one of the new cast members announced for the film in April, alongside Daisy Ridley and John Boyega.

Recently seen in Inside Llewyn Davis, the actor said his family were “very excited” by his latest role.

“My uncle and my cousin have galleries of the Star Wars toys they’ve collected,” he told Kirsty Lang.

“So once I told them I had been cast, he nearly fainted, my uncle. He got sweaty and pale. He was very excited.

“The idea that I could be a toy for him is the craziest thing.”

Little is known about Isaac’s role in Star Wars: Episode VII, and the actor admitted he was under strict orders not to reveal details.

However he spoke about being cast in the movie by director JJ Abrams, saying he had been called to a meeting in Paris earlier this year.

“I’m a huge Star Wars fan but at the same time I’m defensively pessimistic, so I assumed that maybe it was a different project,” he said.

Once Abrams confirmed the meeting was about Star Wars, Isaac said he “tried to play it cool – but, I mean, it was clear I was just so excited he wanted me to be a part of the whole acomplia thing.”

The actor also confessed he used to dress up as characters from the outer space blockbuster franchise as a child.

“Not as a Jedi Knight,” he stressed, “but I dressed up as a gonk droid a couple of times.

“I liked the tertiary characters or the ones you don’t necessarily look at. I was a huge Boba Fett fan.”

The film will be the first Star Wars title released by Disney, after creator George Lucas sold the rights to the franchise in 2012.

It will also see the return of the three principal characters from the original trilogy – Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford).

Earlier this year, Guatemalan-born Isaac was nominated for several awards, including a best actor Golden Globe, for starring in the Coen Brothers’ folk music drama Inside Llewyn Davis.

He told Front Row the accolades led directly to his latest role, in the thriller The Two Faces of January.

“Early on, before I’d been cast in Llewyn Davies, [director Hossein Amini] had shown me the script because we’d worked together on Drive.

“At the time there was very little chance I’d be cast – but once I was cast in Llewyn Davies, that opened up a lot of doors.”

Laughing, he added: “They couldn’t get the money to make the movie with some weirdo named Oscar.”

“It’s kind of crazy that’s how it works, but that’s how it’s worked for a very long time.”

Source: BBC

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