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  The minority members on the Appointments Committee of Parliament have rejected three ministers-designate after the vetting of the nominees. However, the Committee has put on hold the approval of five others seeking further clarification. They are: Roads and Highways portfolio Kwesi Amoako-Atta, Minister-designate for Communications and Digitization, Ursula Owusu Ekuful, Health Minister-designate, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, Attorney General-designate, Godfred Yeboah Dame and John Peter Amewu, Minister-designate for Railways Development. Meanwhile, 22 other ministerial nominees of President Nana A...

705 A 13-year-old boy was burnt to death Friday morning when an electronic shop he was sleeping in caught fire. The incident happened at Buipe, the capital of the Central Gonja District in the Savannah Region. The deceased has been identified as Ibrahim Musah, by personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) at Buipe. The Savannah Regional Fire Commander, Assistant Chief Fire Officer (ACFO), Mr Kwasi Baffour Awuah who confirmed the incident to Graphic Online said the fire incident occurred at about 4 am this dawn. He said the structure in which the boy was sleeping when it caught the fi...

fundsforNGOs UNDP/Ghana: GEF Small Grant Programme 2020 Call for Proposals 135SHARES Deadline: 31-May-21 The Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF-SGP) has received core funds under the GEF-7 to support Ghana to implement its priority programmes. Accordingly, the GEF/SGP announces the 2020/21 “call for proposals” to award small grants of up to US$50,000 to Civil SocietyOrganizations and community groups. In addition to grant making, the SGP will provide strategic services to civil society and community organizations by enhancing their institutional, technical and financi...

Children at Doggoh unable to attend school in rainy season The residents of Doggoh in the Kunzokala Electoral Area, Jirapa Municipality, have bemoaned the inability of their children to attend school at Kunzokalaa during the rainy season due to the lack of school in the community. They said children in the community had to trek several kilometers and cross a river before they could access education at the nearest school at Kunzokalaa, which was several kilometers away from the Doggoh. Mr Alfred Bagooro, a resident of the community, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at the commu...

+ The passage of the Bui Power Authority Bill will help it diversify its financial streams and increase revenue, Fred Oware, Chief Executive Officer of the Authority has said. Speaking to Citi Business News, Mr Oware said “We think that we should operate quite profitably, not only in terms of making profit but having the cash flow to finance our capital expenditures. These have been matters of grave concern, and so we wanted to cure that by prevailing on Parliament.” He said “we actually took our matter there and argued and thankfully they saw the point that we made so, with the new Act...