Nurses, teacher training allowances have been restored - Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo Addo on his media encounter on Tuesday announced that the Nurses and Teacher training allowances have been reinstated. Prior to the media encounter, many people were worried that the President on his ascension had been silent on when one of his campaign promise of restoring the allowances.

The allowances, which were scrapped by the then governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) was met with strong resistance from the teacher trainees, and nursing trainees who complained bitterly about the difficulties it had brought upon them. 
 
The NDC government insisted the continuous payment of the allowances would threaten the future of Ghana’s economy. Under the allowance scheme, the nurses got at least GHC450 every quarter. The government had explained the removal of the allowance was to allow it to admit more students.