‘Bring back Alawa or face exit’

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  • BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    This is going to all the great NDC PARTY sympathizers, as we all knew the true History of UP / NPP and how they chased the founder of this nation (GHANA ) KWAME NKRUMAH with a Bombs throwing, we as NDC supporters must not in ...
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  • agbavitor 10 years ago

    NDC was formed by murders

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 10 years ago

    AUTHOR: KOFI ************
    hehehehehehee ahahahahahahaaa....ndc filled our governance system with nobodies and non achievers like ablakwah okudzeto the judgement debt negotiator who asked ghana to pay 1.5 billion dollars to a ...
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  • senyo 10 years ago

    NPP was found by a arm robbers.Heeeey who told u dat voltarians suffer very disgraceful ur so kall region u don't have pple living in poverty

  • OKOROMANSA 10 years ago

    AS FOR MAHAMA, IT IS NOT NOT A QUESTION OF ALAWA OR NO ALAWA FOR TRAINEE TEACHERS. MAHAMA HAS NOTING GOOD TO OFFER GHANA, HIS NDC PARTY IS BANKCRUPT AND CANNOT BE TRUSTED ANY LONGER. GET THEM OUT IN 2016.

  • PREZ. MAHAMA 10 years ago

    DON'T YOU KNOW I HAVE DEAD GOAT SYNDROME?

  • Addo Tei 10 years ago

    I knew their heckling at the deputy Ministers was politically motivated. And this article proves that. You have to understand that it takes two to tango. Use proper means to address your case. threatening is not the best mean ...
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  • Amoakwa Boadu 10 years ago

    Indeed they can even go beyond hell to wherever? The cheek of it Who made them King makers of Ghana Politics? no wonder these dumb heads could not make it to the University. Who is paying the sharper brains who are in the Uni ...
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  • AGYAAKU 10 years ago

    These student are being dishonest in that they are in the first place painting the wrong picture of all trainee teachers not enjoying allowance. The facts which the public needs to know is that continueing students, with the ...
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  • kwadwo grushi 10 years ago

    we are not going to use only one msg in 2016
    every economic hardship that the country will face we we shall capitalize on it.
    I pray that woyome fails to pay his money as he has promised so that we use it as another weapon ...
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  • wofa Yaw PaPa bi (Niger 10 years ago

    If you don't have anything proper to say SHUT UP ,stupid words n fucking talks,don't voice out ur nonsense and less minded comments ,learn from better peoples on this network and that would make you be call a better hiro.

  • Kofi, USA. 10 years ago

    Listen to this COCAINE DRUG BOYS . AKUFO COCAINE ADDO AND HIS NPP GANG OF NATION LOOTERS ARE THE BEHIND ALL THESE CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES

  • Close Observer 10 years ago

    When idiots comment you don't take it serious. Kofi, USA is someone who has runaway from his country because he knows he can't survive there because of 26 years of useless rule by the NDC. They might have helped him with his ...
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  • Kofi, USA. 10 years ago

    THIS URGLY COCAINE DWARF AKUFO ADDO AGAIN. YOU WILL NEVER EVER BE PRESIDENT OF KWAME NKRUMAH GHANA. YOU CAN CALL YOUR DEAD DEVIL FATHER, OUT FROM HIS GRAVE. STILL YOU WILL LOSE.

  • adu baah 10 years ago

    grt teacher trainiees u are given npp weapon to face dumsor party..changes plss
    free education out
    allawa in

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    Payment of ex-gratia to government officials that ranges from $5,000 to $50,000 every four years, should be scrapped. Just do the math. How many government officials and ex-officials receive such payment and what is the ratio ...
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  • Ghanaman 10 years ago

    More than $500,000

  • usa 10 years ago

    Am a product of PTC Akropong Akuapim, hmmmmm this is completely politic. How can you tell me that getting away with teachers allowance is strategic. The government should know better than this becos about 95% of students in t ...
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  • United Ghana 10 years ago

    All this is all part of an ill-considered attempt to meet IMF conditions without carrying out public service retrenchment until 2017

  • alalu 10 years ago

    My brother your cry has been heard, but bear in mind that we still live under colonialism, except that this time, it is our own brothers who are soffocating the nation. The ppl who can change that law are the legislators, the ...
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  • kofi 10 years ago

    This are the areas the government must cut off not such an important and needed sector. NCCE report even showing how great disservice the legislature is doing to Mother Ghana. Bagbin and minority chief whip has endorsed it. P ...
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  • The mask 10 years ago

    The economy is hitting many families hard and many have run out of ideas.

    Boachsoft Finance 2012 software, developed in East Akim Municipality (Akyem-Maase and Bunso) in the Eastern Region of Ghana and in Accra/Sakumono, i ...
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  • Don_ ,Lawra 10 years ago

    let the quota system be implemented and how many students will be admitted. these students are very stupid

  • ASIEDU NKETIA 10 years ago

    If any one who insulted teachers trainees are Stupid MAHAMA him self is fool can you think of it trainee teachers Alawa is important every where in the world

  • Ebenezer Ayiku koranteng ATECOE 10 years ago

    Gentleman be of good intellect rather than insult we are in a Democratic dispensation

  • BenMace 10 years ago

    block head, how could u say such a thing. this alawa has been helping teachers a lot. it jx like their blood , it has freed many poor people from bandage. ..plzzz u guys should say sumtin good.

  • Obournana 10 years ago

    People like you need not be responded because you are sic in the head. The allowance was replaced with student loans so more people can have admission. University ad polytechnic student receive loan though, they do not have j ...
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  • Abban 10 years ago

    Oh Aboanana gyimi paa nie

  • SAY IT AS IT IS 10 years ago

    It is a pity that in our socity those who u think can think are thr fools amongest us. Pity that we as a people still live with the mentality that everything must stay the same no matter how. Sometimes it beats my mind to rea ...
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  • Mia 10 years ago

    This has Bawumia written all over it

  • Don_ ,Lawra 10 years ago

    npp don't have campaign message for 2016 election and are forced to use students Allawa

  • okofo 10 years ago

    Mahama government's incompetency in ALL AREAS of the economy means, when it comes to NPP's "campaign messages" the sky is the limit.

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

    After picking her son up from school one day, the mother asks him what he did at school. The kid replies, "I had sex with my teacher." She gets so mad that when they get home, she orders him to go straight to his room. When t ...
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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

    On the last day of kindergarten, all the children brought presents for their teacher.
    The florist's son handed the teacher a gift. She shook it, held it up and said, "I bet it's some flowers!"

    "That's right!" shouted th ...
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  • Edensu 10 years ago

    As a nation, we should set our priorities. We pretend as if we have nothing in the nation's coffers. Distributing computers just before elections, donating tactors and pick-ups to chiefs, putting all foot soldiers on govern ...
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  • raskimo 10 years ago

    Lazy trainees teacher's they have nothing to do for us loosing election

  • KOFI AMEYAW 10 years ago

    IRRESPONSIBLE LOTS! WHAT IS THE QUALITY OF YOUR CONTIBUTION TO THE NATION,? MEDIOCRETITY, POOR PERFORMANCE, ABSENTISM, MORAL WEAKNESS, VIOLENCE, INTELLECTUAL LAZINESS, THIEFERY, ;ATENESS, INCOMPETENCE OR WHAT? YOU ARE ALWAYS ...
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  • Kelvin 10 years ago

    if u can say all these about ur tr then u are de biggest fool for ever attending school

  • KOFI BADU 10 years ago

    THE TRUTH HURTS! YOU CANNOT TAKE IT SO YOUR HAVE RESULTED TO ABUSE. POOR YOU, GROW UP!

  • VOICE OF REASON 10 years ago

    And a selfish one at that.Some of us have known this for a long while.The national kitty has been depleted by a reckless pre-election giveaway freebie of $5bn just so crackpot Mahama can remain in power......now Ghana is brok ...
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  • Hon Amadu Adamu in Amantin Brong Ahaf 10 years ago

    After the implementation of the single spin salary structure, teachers' promotion allowances and incremental jumps are no more. This is truly encroaching.

  • raskimo 10 years ago

    Lazy trainees teacher's you're don't have land to farm , addition to your teaching work with lazy talk,go to farm and get extra money for yourself.

  • natty 10 years ago

    you need a teacher bro,

  • WASHISHI 10 years ago

    fellow teachers look at your students report card and question your loyalty to the nation .tax payers money,just like the medical Doctors are used to trained you ,having pass out,you embark on strikes, demo,and politics,.whoe ...
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  • VOICE OF REASON 10 years ago

    The bald truth is that Ghana is broke because selfish crackpot Mahama wasted $5bn from the national kitty in a pre-election giveaway freebie just to remain in power.....now we all paying the price for his selfishness

  • Osei George 10 years ago

    Did Ghana have $5bn in its coffers? You must first learn how to lie.

  • mnsah kofi 10 years ago

    Change is necessary as we developed as a nation .we cannot to do same thing and expect new results. Ggovernment expenditure will continue to becut when necessary to meet revenue ,

  • Kojo Bonsu 10 years ago

    This's complete blackmail. I will challenge the president to call their bluff and let them do their worst. You are thinking of your pockets. What about those at ucc, uew and other places. Why should there be discrimination of ...
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  • sikdo 10 years ago

    Twaa.kai
    Mahama. is.going.out from flagstar.house.he must to.go

  • Proud Ghanaian 10 years ago

    So that u become our next president abi?
    U are a fool to say such trash

  • Ebenezer Ayiku koranteng ATECOE 10 years ago

    Teacher Trainees have said it all is high time the president advises himself or all die be die as Nana Addo said

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    Mahama is the world most stupid president ever. He tickles himself like a primary school kid. He is full of shit to be the president of a useless country like ghana

  • Obournana 10 years ago

    You are a bastard so you have no respect for elders. Shame on you to call your president stupid. It's not your fault but nature. Blame your prostitute mother for denying you a father. Idiot.

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    Just like the president your mother was the senior in prostitution and your drunkard father killed himself with a knife. Your imbecile president sleeps with his workers for favor. Kwasiaba from a lesbian mother and kotiboto f ...
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  • ndc all the way 10 years ago

    If you aren't voting for ndc nothing will happen, Ndc we will rig and still win the elections, teacher trainees are all fools, we don't even need your votes foolish and dwarf Akans

  • Kelvin 10 years ago

    you see hw stupid u are,are all tr trainees akans??if we live in a country full of stupid people like u en ur entire family hw do we expect de country to develop.

  • Joe 10 years ago

    The amount of money used in paying the ex-gratia for MPs is much much higher than the peanuts given to the nurses and teacher trainees, yet while the MPs are paid promptly after every four years, that of the students have bee ...
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  • PAPSON 10 years ago

    Asiredu Nketias flimsy excuses on teachers allowance stings. I therefore advice Mahama and co to abrogate the free education in northern Ghana. I do not consider it reasonable to continue with the above program if Ghana is t ...
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  • Wahala 10 years ago

    What does this threat means? Do University students get paid while in school? What is the purpose of the so called "alawa? The alawa is gone forever, it shall never be reinstated by any government. Study hard to pass with goo ...
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  • Gman 10 years ago

    Its very insulting to see some people making some comparison without doing their damm home work.
    Yes all tertiary institutions receive allowance which teacher training colleges are no different. Secondly, the allowance for t ...
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  • Flex Kwateng 10 years ago

    Mahama are u sure about what u are doing.? IMF pull your leg gentle man like u why . be wise ooo 2016 byeeee Pay our back pay for us . hmmmm we shall seee.

  • Haruna 10 years ago

    Mahama govt is misleading us we gonna throw them away

  • Kwaku Obeng 10 years ago

    If there is no money in the system, then all other discriminative programmes for example the northern free education programmes must be scrapped. The dynamics of the state has changed and it is time all are treated equally. T ...
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  • Dadi 10 years ago

    Our leaders in Ghana should tell the truth why they remove the alawa,whether they restore or not NDC is going down this time am not into politics

  • Haruna 10 years ago

    Even we Emergency Medical Technicians personnel they can even pay us salary 2year now. Our back pay too no we have t? come and rent accomodation for ourselves, if the back pay too will come they will pay it tot by tot what ad ...
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  • Chuks, Tudu Accra 10 years ago

    Let these idiots do their worst Ghana is at the cross-roads and needs tough political decisions to move this country forward. Such threats should not be tolerated, damn the consequencies. It's better for the government to tak ...
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  • Amega 10 years ago

    I think we must be very objective about this allowance issue and not allow our feelings cloud our judgement.The removal of the allowance has paved way for thousands who could not have gained admission in previous years to do ...
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  • Kelvin 10 years ago

    what shows dat they are now at de tertiary level,they still go to dinning,wear uniforms,go for exeat when they want to go out en doing all sorts of works dat tertiary studnts don't do.i stay at MONICO cos ma mum is a tutor th ...
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  • say it loud 10 years ago

    Prez. Mahama and his cronies are serious jokers! You can't pay teacher trainees their alawa yet you can pay lazy politicians ex-gratia, increase the no. of ministers, dash woyome GHs 51m, share our taxes among party cronies ...
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  • Nii Tackie 10 years ago

    De teachers who were posted last year haven't been put on scale!!
    Even their registered numbers are still not in!
    Eiiii, aban foo b3n koraa ni???
    In fact fire burn any idiot who shall vote for dis stupid government in ...
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  • Nii 10 years ago

    It is very unfair for some Ghanaian students to enjoy allowance while others struggle for student loans to enable them go through schools. We all want a level plain and as such happy about the scrapping of the alawa. Most of ...
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  • an3lka 10 years ago

    why should govt pay trainees when there r graduates unemployed at home? what about varse n poly students? for fairness to prevail, no student should be paid. the most annoying part is that after completion they teach pupils t ...
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  • noel 10 years ago

    Are U better than we those in the poli, universities, and other private school who never get allowance? Stop this no sense, You the trainees are not more Ghanaian than any of us who sweat to finance our education.

  • azure 10 years ago

    it is laughable and funny.what of those who went to the university without alawa.teacher training is a matter of choice,and nobody forced you to go to the training college.Give us a break

  • Jim wise 10 years ago

    Tax payers money will not be used to pay u . U can opt to leave the schools . It is The almighty God who install leaders & will not listen to selfish boys & girls like u . At least listen to the voice of wisdom , the limitati ...
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  • Obournana 10 years ago

    Jim, you are indeed wise. They are puppets of NPP and will demonstrate their ignorant to the public. Should poly and vaesity student bodies also come out to promote their support for the scrapping others allowance? NPP will u ...
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  • Rapheal 10 years ago

    We were told earlier that the allowance is scrapped before we bought the forms.i want to ask the ttag national president that if not that the allowance was screpped would he be there? We should stop disturbing ourselves and c ...
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  • wofa Yaw PaPa bi (Niger 10 years ago

    Brothers don't worry,and don't 4get Bawumia's speech WE WILL BRING BACK ALAWA, since Pastors are going with NPP to KNUST,goodness and mercy shall follow OUR DEAR TRAINING TEACHERS

  • Alhaji A Brutus Germany 10 years ago

    Starving teachers and nurses to pay the so call FOOT SOLDIERS how on earth?funding armed robbers who support your party is it not a shame?

  • KK 10 years ago

    PRESIDENT, THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEMONSTRATE THE DEAD GOAT SYNDROME. BE FIRM AND DON'T LICK BACK YOUR SPUTUM.
    THANKS

  • Kwadzo Akaho 10 years ago

    This guys can go to hell. I have attended Poly and University without any allowances. They can vote NPP for all i care. After all,what shows that they voted for NDC in previous elections?

  • Edensu 10 years ago

    As a nation, we should set our priorities. We pretend as if we have nothing in the nation's coffers. Distributing computers just before elections, donating tactors and pick-ups to chiefs, putting all foot soldiers on governme ...
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  • ATAAA 10 years ago

    You can go to hell. People who complete teacher training and cannot piece a single sentence together u want alawa because some lunatic has come to promise u. Idiots

  • AT00 10 years ago

    Has any university or polytechnic student received alawa? So why u? U can vote for the NPP. If you have forgotten they are the ones who seized teachers salary and when they realised they were going to lose elections quickly r ...
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  • TEE 10 years ago

    MAHAMA INCOMPETENT OF RULING THE NATION PERIOD

  • TEE 10 years ago

    GET RID OF THAT DEAD GOAT PERIOD

  • SCANTY BOY 10 years ago

    Teacher trainees shd kep minut wat wil separate us is coming 2016 December

  • Deen 10 years ago

    When will the student know that they were wrong to add up they voice tó the call on the govt to upgread to tairtary statues that will effect on the alawa now is it dont balm govt .

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Ooo gh HW can we allow selfishness peoples lik NDC rule ur dear nation gh .bt I blame our selfs .

  • Asem se be 10 years ago

    As trainee teachers, go out and preach the word. Tell school children to their parents to vote this useless govt out. 35, 000 trainee teachers, each one of you should tell at least 10 people. Use your influence to get Mahama ...
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  • STEVE. 10 years ago

    In my opinion,allowance for trainee teachers must be reinstated by cancellation of Housing Allowances for MP's to finance the trainee teachers.

  • JOE 10 years ago

    ENOUGH. GO TO HELL. TOO MANY FREE FREE THINGS IN GHANA HENCE WE ARE BROKE.

  • AKWASI 10 years ago

    SACK ALL THE STUDENTS.

  • Ugly akufo addo 10 years ago

    Is NDC that brought the Alawa n they are the same people that are taking their own again what is ur prolems , idiot fools

  • Faruk 10 years ago

    allowance was cancelled since 2013 and you people willingly applied. so what are you talking about? if not because of increase increase of enrolment as a results of cancellatin of allowance many of you would not have gotten a ...
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  • kofi 10 years ago

    I'm very disappointed in John Mahama, a northerner who has benefited from Ghana Northerners free education, Aseidu Nketia a teacher who survived on teachers allowance, today these people have the right to tell the good citiz ...
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  • darkwa 10 years ago

    bing the allawa back I am an ndc but I strongly oppose the cancellation please we suffered than anyone to ge this far pls mer mahama I beg don't let ndc sink for life

  • Richard Addah 10 years ago

    look,its not as if the people who go to the colleges Don't have the qualifition to enter the universities. But then,it is a matter of finance hence the colleges. so if you(ndc) has scrapped off the allawance,as a matter of fa ...
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  • Stoway 10 years ago

    Are the leadrrship of TTAG going to program every ghanaian and trainee teacher's brains or hold their hands to vote Mahama out? If they dont know how to use the dues paid by students to them then they should dissolve the grou ...
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  • Haile Manasseh Mengistus Selaise VII 10 years ago

    Where is the allowance coming from? Should Prez. Mahama manifest the allowance from thin air. Are the allowances savings or deductions from the taxes of the teacher trainees?
    It's a pity these folks don't reason analytically ...
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  • agahowa 10 years ago

    u have not seen anything, this is just the beginning

  • Samuel Ansah ,New York 10 years ago

    Stupid ultimatum . Even in a developed country like the USA I have not heard of a trainee allowance . NPP has run out of campaign message and has changed gear towards the students .In fact I don't know how this stud ...
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  • Intellectual 10 years ago

    Please get your facts straight! May be you are in the USA as indicated in your Post, but you know nothing as far as some of these Federal grants which are offered to college students free of charge are concerned. For your inf ...
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  • Agbee 10 years ago

    Per this statement, ".......He assured that [they] as teachers would never resort to insolence in seeking redress to issues affecting them.", one the followings is possible. Either the TTAG president is economical with the tr ...
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  • T.k 10 years ago

    You will never get it back, you got to take loans and pay it back after graduation

  • Moore 10 years ago

    I was in a Training College form 1975 to 1978, and never heard of ALLOWANCE.
    I did finish well and getting on well in life. Don't let polticians use you. The promise of bringing back "alawa" is VERY false

  • Andy 10 years ago

    Education students in the various tertiary institutions( Universities) do pay their academic fees in full but go for off-campus teaching practice. During such periods they pay for their rent, utilities and among other several ...
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