Adeti writes: A lesson to parents – How a child got frozen alive
This thing has been seriously troubling my mind. Kindly pay attention to it. I will be brief. Whilst some children were playing together on a family compound, one among them, a little girl, feeling thirst, took leave of the playground and walked into the house. She made for a chest freezer (what is commonly called deep freezer) to pull out a bottle of water. Unable to reach for any of the bottles inside the half-stocked freezer, she held the top lid of the freezer upwards with one hand and strenuously helped herself to the edge of the freezer to her abdomen level. As she leaned her abdomen on the edge (still holding the top lid upwards) and stretched the other free hand hard towards a bottle in the freezer, she lost hold of the lid and tumbled into the deep freezer. The top lid also dropped shut with the little girl locked inside the freezing white box. Later, the play outside was over and her elder siblings began to look for her. Their mother returned from the adjoining house (where she apparently had been engaged in a discussion with a neighbour friend whilst her children were playing on their own) only to join the desperate search for her daughter. Hours later, the father returned from work, fatigued. He was welcomed with the unpleasant news— as he was undoing his neck tie— that one of the little members of the family was missing. He asked questions. The answers he got had no iota of clue. All that while, they least suspected she was in the deep freezer. Fatigued and confused in addition, the father needed water to drink before he would drive to the police to lodge a report. He walked briskly to the chest freezer and lifted the lid. The sight came like a flaming spear through his heart. Tragedy. A scream of horror went through the roof of the house. Such was the scream of horror that the birds on the roof, sensing terror, took to flight unprepared for cover. The girl was already frozen…dead. The ice did not give her a chance to close her eyes. She must have cried so loud in vain for help and must have struggled so hard in that lonely and dark place to push open the lid from inside to no avail before she died. Let us pay attention to this. And if there is no child around you for the moment, kindly inform your families and friends outside your home about this if there are children in their care and there is a chest freezer around. Children also have a midnight habit of just walking out of bed in the middle of their sleep when their parents or guardians are fast asleep to grab soft drinks, fruits, water, yoghurts and the like from deep freezers. I shared this true story about the girl frozen alive some time ago on the radio. Let us pay attention to this in the best way we can so we don’t wake up one day to any horror in our deep freezers. Deep freezers are very important to our domestic life but we need to keep them under lock and key as one of the ways to control their domestic use to avoid misfortune especially where there are little children. May peace be in your home. By: Edward Adeti. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
I cannot foresee unutilised gas in Ghana, says Dr Sarpong
Dr Kofi Koduah Sarpong, chief executive officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) says if all stakeholders in the energy sector coordinated well on the use of gas, he does not foresee unutilized gas in the country. Speaking on Energy 101 on Asaase Radio with Emmanuel Aboagye-Wiafe, Dr Sarpong said, “I cannot foresee unutilized gas. You see I have defended this, if we coordinate very well; our sector Ministry will coordinate with VRA, the Energy Commission, GNPC and other users for this product, I cannot foresee any unutilized gas.” He was speaking on the need for the country to have the LNG project which he said was going to be very beneficial in the coming years. Dr Sarpong added, “I foresee a gas deficit in the next two, three years and the only way to fill it, is this LNG project which we have scaled it up that we can process 600 million standard cubic feet.” Some industry players have criticised the decision by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to partner with Shell to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification facility in the country. Misplaced and Wasteful The Institute for Energy Security (IES) in a recent statement said the LNG facility is a misplaced priority. “With ample proof that there is sufficient supply from domestic sources to meet the country’s gas needs, the contracting of a regasification facility at this moment is a misplaced priority and wasteful. “It is wasteful in the sense that it is going to worsen the excess supply situation, resulting in more cost to the country, in the face of the take-or-pay clause embedded in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) import contract,” the IES said. IES added that “the decision to build an LNG regasification facility in the country for purposes of importation is hasty and needless. There is absolutely no linkage to the short-term and long-term needs of the country. The decision to procure the facility at this moment will only contribute to the excesses and come at a cost to the country. The country is better off prioritizing investment into gas liquefaction than regasification. “Presently, the issue of supply of gas has well been addressed by domestic production. What is left to be solved in the demand-supply equation is the demand factor,” it said. But Dr Sarpong said, “people say there will be too much gas on the market. I can tell you that over the last three years, gas off-take from our fold increased significantly. In 2019, it was about 211 million standard cubic feet per day usage. Last year, it was about 296 million standard cubic feet per day on average…if we have enough gas, then we won’t bring gas from Nigeria. “We’ve been bringing gas from Nigeria via the West African Gas Pipeline into the country to be used by VRA for power generation and that should tell you that we don’t have enough gas locally. Maybe people are saying that, but if you have the Nigerian source why are you bringing in this one?” Fuel security Dr Sarpong said, “Having the LNG in the fuel mix is an advantage, for example sometimes the line from Nigeria is blocked or mutilated and there cannot be any flow from Nigeria to Ghana so supply is cut. Even our own fields; greater part of last year TEN fields was virtually down, Jubilee will produce but sometimes up to a certain level their plant trips… so if you have LNG coming in then when these things happen there will be another source of fuel supply.” He said the LNG product is cheaper and gives the country enough fuel security. “As I speak today, it’s [the LNG] cheaper than Sankofa and it’s cheaper than the gas coming from Nigeria. The only one which is cheaper is Jubilee and TEN which cannot give you the volumes that you need because of the constraints of production as well as constraints on the Ghana Gas plant.” Dr Sarpong added, “But even that is cheaper because the volumes we are pumping now together with what we call substitution agreement if we can’t get from Jubilee we can take from TEN at no price then it makes it cheaper for everybody. When that is finished there will be a price for those ones. “So in a way, we think that this LNG issue is an important thing. It’s going to give us fuel security and it’s going to be cheaper. People who are honest will do the analysis and say it as it is. We are producing from Sankofa we all know it’s expensive. You can’t do otherwise. It’s very expensive,” he added. The LNG facility The Tema LNG terminal is made up of a dedicated floating regasification unit (FRU), built by Jiangnan Shipbuilding, and a separate floating LNG storage (FSU). It can receive, re-gasify, store, and deliver around 1.7 million tonnes of LNG a year, about 30% of Ghana’s general capacity. The long-term supply deal between Royal Dutch Shell and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation will see Spanish LNG terminal operator Reganosa, run and maintain the terminal and the associated 6-km gas pipeline for 12 years and then transfer operatorship to the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. The Tema LNG, backed by Helios Investment Partners and Africa Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), is the first offshore LNG receiving terminal in sub-Saharan Africa. The terminal will employ the innovative combination of the FRU twinned with an existing LNG carrier to receive, store and regasify LNG. This system provides Ghana with all the functionality of a large-scale FRU-terminal, but with added flexibility, allowing it to respond to rapidly increasing domestic gas demand with a cleaner and more affordable energy solution. The Tema LNG terminal aims to meet Ghana’s growing energy demand through an innovative yet cost-efficient, reliable supply. Asaase Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
Tuesday, 09 March IWD: Our survival depends on an empowered woman – Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama is praising women, as Ghana joins the rest of the world to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) today, Monday, 8 March 2021. In a Facebook post, Mr Mahama noted that: “Our very survival as a society depends on an empowered woman – one who knows her strength, contributes to our socio-economic development, nurtures and shapes the destinies of the younger generation and gives selfless service to humanity.” He advised that: “Lets us together achieve equal future in a COVD-19 world, just as the theme for #IWD2021 reflects. #ChooseToChallenge Meanwhile, Ghana’s First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has said women are more than capable of making a positive difference “in our communities, regardless of the field of endeavour”. The First Lady said this in her message to women to mark IWD. “Today, we celebrate all women! “We affirm that women are more than capable of making a positive difference in our communities, regardless of the field of endeavour. “Experience has shown this; the evidence attests to this. We, therefore, choose to challenge any opinion, action, norm and practice that does not uphold the truth,” she also posted on Facebook. The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), is also calling on stakeholders to prioritise the laying of affirmative action bill before parliament. The bill is laid and passed will give equal representation to women in all spheres of life such as education, employment and governance. classfm Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
The key task assigned to me by the President is to create jobs – Alan Kyeremanten
Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen has said key among his task as the sector Minister is to create employments for Ghanaians. According to Alan Kyerematen, creating of employments for Ghanaians at his sector is one of the key tasks assigned to him by President Akufo-Addo. On his Facebook page after their sworn-in ceremony on Friday, March 5, Alan Kyerematen indicated that he has also been tasked to play an integral part in realizing the Ghana Beyond Aid Agenda. “The key task assigned to me by the President is to lead Government’s industrialization agenda, create jobs and to play my part in realizing the Ghana Beyond Aid Agenda”, Alan Kyerematen wrote.. Below is Alan Kyerematen’s write up On Friday, March 5, 2021, I was sworn-in as Minister of Trade and Industry by H.E the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo, alongside 27 colleagues, at a brief ceremony at the Jubilee House. I am grateful to the President for reposing his confidence in me and nominating me to serve another term in his government. I am also grateful to members of Parliament for their approval. The key task assigned to me by the President is to lead Government’s industrialization agenda, create jobs and to play my part in realizing the Ghana Beyond Aid Agenda. I will continue to serve the government and the nation with the best of my ability. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
President Akufo-Addo to speak on the State of the Nation at 1pm today
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s planned state of the nation address to be delivered on Tuesday, March 9 will no longer take place at the designated time, 8:30 am. The programme has been shifted to 1:00 pm that same day, a statement dated March 5 issued by Parliament has said. The change has been necessitated by the business of the House for the week, the statement added. “It is announced for the information of all dignitaries who have been invited to witness the presentation by the President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on a Message on the State of the Nation scheduled to be held on Tuesday 9th March 20231, that the time of the event has been changed from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM. “Any inconvenience occasioned by this change is deeply regretted,” the statement said. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093