The report that the Deputy Minister of Energy, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, has said that the government will continue to explore comprehensive and viable options to cater for the Ghana’s transition from fossil fuels to renewables is one of the trending stories in the Ghanaian press on Monday.
The Graphic reports that the Deputy Minister of Energy, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, has said the government will continue to explore comprehensive and viable options to cater for the Ghana’s transition from fossil fuels to renewables.
He explained that the country was already putting in place measures that would ensure seamless energy transition, as Ghana joins in the race for net zero carbon emission.
He said key of these measures was the setting up of a National Energy Transition Committee (NETC) with the aim of developing a national energy transition policy.
Speaking to the media at the launch of the 2019 Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) reports in Accra on April 14, 2022, Dr Adam insisted that Ghana would transition from fossil fuels at its own pace.
The reports are Mining and Oil/Gas EITI published by the Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) of the GHEITI.
The MSG is a tripartite body made up of the government, industry and civil society, with responsibility of steering the affairs of GHEITI.
The compilation of the 2019 report brings to 16, the total number of mining reports so far produced and published since Ghana acceded to the initiative.
The newspaper says that Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has presented GH¢60,000 to victims of last Thursday’s attack that resulted in the death of eight persons and injury of others at Zakoli community in the Yendi Municipality.
The donation is to support the families of the deceased persons and those who sustained various degrees of gunshot wounds.
Families of each of the deceased received GH¢5,000 to assist in the funeral rites whereas each of the injured persons also received GH¢5,000 to support their medical bills and recovery.
He also toured the communities that were attacked to assess the extent of damage and to empathise with the victims.
Presenting the cash to the Chief of the Community, Naa Abukari Andani for onward allocation to the victims, Dr Bawumia said the donation was an immediate intervention to mitigate the plight of the victims.
He indicated that the government would in the coming days dispatch relief items to support the people.
The Graphic also reports that the Presiding Bishop of the Lighthouse Chapel Interrnational, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, has encouraged Christians not to allow adversity to come between them and their faith in God.
Bishop Heward-Mills said Sunday (April 17, 2022) that challenges were part of life and as children of God, Christians must not think that they were immuned to such difficulties.
A press statement from the Lighthouse International Church (LCI) said the Presiding Bishop, however, noted that the response of Christians to adversities must be Godly and anchored on their belief and faith in God as that would help to distinguish them, strengthen and entrench their Christian faith as well as encourage others to serve God.
The advice from the Presiding Bishop of the Lighthouse Chapel came after news broke Friday that his first son, Dr David Heward-Mills, had passed.
The church said in the statement that the news broke after the Good Friday church service.
Dr Heward-Mills was the first son of Bishop Heward-Mills. David was a medical doctor residing and working in the United State of America.
“Despite the news of the death, the Bishop has displayed immense and commendable faith in God in the face of adversity and great loss,” the church stated.
The newspaper also says that a lecturer at the School of Hygiene in Ho, Sampson Quaye Agbavitor, who allegedly slashed his 14-year-old son repeatedly with a cutlass and left him to his fate has been arraigned.
The plea of Agbavitor, 41, who has been charged with causing unlawful harm and the use of an offensive weapon, was not taken when appeared before the Ho District Court 2, last Thursday (April 14, 2022), reports Graphic Online’s Alberto Mario Noretti.
Inspector Rejoice Kasa, who presented the facts, told the court presided over Mr Akosah Agyare-Amoapong said that the accused carried out the act on the child as punishment for a wrongdoing in school.
The victim, whose name is being withheld, is a JHS student who lives with his father at Ho-Dome
The prosecution said the child smeared a portion of sanitizer on the face of his classmate on campus, prompting the school authorities to invite the accused to the disciplinary hearing into the matter.
The court was told the accused refused to honour the invitation from the school authorities and also ignored a letter reminding him of the meeting at the school.
As a result, the prosecution said, the school authorities prevented the child from writing the remaining two papers of his end-of-term examinations.
This angered the accused, who returned home from work on April 11 with a cutlass, and grabbed the boy at about 2am, subjected him to severe beatings before inflicting the wounds on him with the cutlass, the court was told.
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