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NSS allowance, a cheat on Ghanaian graduates

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  • £earn_$martphones_Repairing 7 years ago

    Did you waste January? Here is another chance to sow this February. SOW or INVEST in specialist tech-knowledge and REAP decent income the rest of the year. It's made easy in this resource even better than a training event bec ...
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  • l AM 7 years ago

    Students from the tertiary institutions all voted for akkufu Aduie now see what he has done to us. Chaiee!!!

  • Jennifer Bio 7 years ago

    You certainly have no basis for what you are talking about. There are no three squared meals in most training colleges n compare the fees we pay, the fact that we work while in school , the bond to work in Ghana for five year ...
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  • Moss 7 years ago

    But sincerely speaking it's a cheat to national service persons. The trainee allowance needs to be reduced drastically

  • Minem 7 years ago

    And to add to it , there isn't anything like free 3 square meals. Imagine u paying as much as ¢1, 200 for feeding for a semester as a student nurse. Get your facts right! There aren't even facts anyway...

  • joe 7 years ago

    sorry for you, there graduates who completed school for the past five years with no jobs yet still went through all the payment and service, what did you think of that? please be quite you are just a student.

  • R Kiyosaki II 7 years ago

    Point of correction : the current leave month for service personnel is August and not June as you stated Ciphas.

  • Ebenezer 7 years ago

    true, in this modern Gh, it is lucrative to attend training college dan university, the degree has bcum a piece of shit. graduates r struggling to secure a job. after service, no job. due to unemployment graduates r even happ ...
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  • Asaah 7 years ago

    I urge you to fight for the increment of the service allowances without comparing to the teacher and nurses. You'll lose your argument from that angle any day. There's nothing like 'back pay', its just accumulated salary arre ...
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  • Kingsley Effah 7 years ago

    Accumulated salary arrears is the same as ''back pay''...read ur dictionary well dude...

  • Chief 7 years ago

    I completely agree with u. I don't get it when the highly trained brains are made to suffer after graduating whilst their inferior counterparts are made to enjoy even in school. Graduate nurses go through the same hardship wh ...
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  • teacher 7 years ago

    hmmm total display of ignorance. Research well before you come out with nonsense like this. Who told u 'these trainees' are fed three square meals during their 3 year training. Go ask those on internship if they are fed three ...
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  • THE MILOBOY_GARU 7 years ago

    Fight for your right but don't be jealous of others

  • gee 7 years ago

    Mr. writer you have no fact of what you are saying.we are not fed 3 times n we pay abt 2000gh cedis per semester how much does the the university pay a year. Go and gather your facts well before you write

  • Tommy 7 years ago

    I think you have spoken very well but i disagree to some of your statements. The new govt did not say that they will not pay the new allowance the ndc announced but they said it was not captured in the budget ndc read in Nove ...
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  • Atakli Amos Blessing 7 years ago

    Thank you Mr. Cephas Akotor,
    Your points are in place. Even after they are been fed, they still look up to government to post them whiles we graduate are left to find our own job.
    ##Niece piece from my formal S.P of great ...
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  • Archemedece 7 years ago

    Ur argument is baseless pls go n make a good research b4 u come out wit dis piece of information how much are u people paying for a year . Trainees pay almost 5000 cedis a year wit a bond , they are also nt enjoying what u ar ...
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  • Concern citizen 7 years ago

    thank you very much for such constructive points,in fact national service is a worst area in the country, after spending 4years in the university and you have spend additional one year again for nothing crucial,almost spendin ...
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  • Tilly 7 years ago

    I think we shd all fail our WACSE exams n go to dis training skuls...Dey r cheats

  • Kwarteng 7 years ago

    Who told u going training college means u did nt pass wacce ,u we wrong .what do u so in the universities always going out u dnt learn anything dere paying bribe for results

  • watil 7 years ago

    All borne out of Destructive Jealousy!!!

    If Universities were Colleges, Same could have happened!!!

    You're only craving for attention dude...lol

  • Blessed 7 years ago

    hmm...It is optional to fight for a Degree or Diploma...AGAINST

  • Tilly 7 years ago

    Its neva optional dey all wished dey wer in uni

  • JKMo 7 years ago

    THE NATIONAL SERVICE PERSONNEL MUST BE PAID AT LEAST GHC790 A MONTH

  • Boniface. 7 years ago

    the fact is that, the former president Mahama said last said ' tertiary is mend to train entrepreneurs n not to be employed by government' which I ask my self how was they paying service personnels n still expect them to ser ...
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  • Say no to old age for president 7 years ago

    Your statements and concerns are right I even think those trainees which it a great professional job shouldn't be paid for pursuing those courses but the corrupt intents of our leaders fails to call a spade a spade. Having sa ...
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  • evidence 7 years ago

    because Otiko dint do national service u want to cover her with this stupid article

  • Abusuapanin 7 years ago

    Its bullshit to fight over NSS increment in allowances, those dudes went to the university with good grades, had better class but at the end the trainee is of more use than these hardworkers graduates...its about time we figh ...
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  • Kofi Sam - USA 7 years ago

    National service should be mandatory to those who graduated from government institutions where they received some form of subsidy from the government . This could be in the form of low tuition , access to good libraries , m ...
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