Galamsey Fight Angers China
The China mission in Ghana has expressed disconcertion at the manner in which the West African country is treating Chinese engaged in illegal small-scale mining (galamsey). The concerns of the China...
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Eastern Region Police Charged To Prosecute Galamseyers
Eastern regional minister Eric Kwakye Darfour has asked police in the region to arrest and put before court all illegal miners without delay. The regional minister expressed worry that graders...
Nana Addo Fully Responsible For Delta Force Attack – NDC
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), wants President Nana Akufo-Addo to take full responsibility for the Delta Force’s “barbaric” attack on the Kumasi circuit court that led to the escape of...
Nana Addo Fully Responsible For Delta Force Attack
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) wants President Nana Akufo-Addo to take full responsibility for the Delta Force’s “barbaric” attack on the Kumasi circuit court that led to the escape of...
Bawumia Sidelined In Nana’s Government
The Northern Youth for Peace and Development (NYUPED), a civil society pressure group headquartered in Tamale, the Northern regional capital, says it has picked up signals showing that Vice President...
Arrest Agyapong, Wontumi – Group
The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) chairman in the Ashanti Region, Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Wontumi), must be blamed and arrested for the...
Akufo-Addo’s Government Breeding Armed Robbery
Aspiring Ashanti Regional Chairman for the opposition National Democratic Congress is accusing the Akufo Addo government of creating fertile grounds for crime and armed robbery. According to Joseph...
Galamsey Fight Real Test For Akufo-Addo Gov’t – Media Foundation
The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah believes that addressing the menace of illegal mining popularly known as galamsey is the first major test for...
‘Smart’ Muntaka Selected NDC MPs On Joe Ghartey Committee
It has emerged that, the Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka and Member of Parliament (MP) for Asawase in the Ashanti Region, craftily selected the two MPs on his side, who sat on...
Government Breaks Another Election Promise
The Akufo-Addo government, has issued a total of 2.25 billion dollars in four bonds contrary to its campaign promise not to borrow, because Ghana’s debt stock, had risen beyond the country’s...
We’ll ‘blow Up’ Seized Galamsey Excavators
Any earth-moving equipment seized by the state from illegal small-scale miners must be “blown up”, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Peter Amewu, has said. The Minister, who has launched...
Akufo-Addo Will Be A Great Leader If He Ends Galamse
President Nana Akufo-Addo will cement a legacy as one of the “greatest” leaders Ghana has ever had if he successfully uproots illegal small-scale mining (galamsey), Mr Ken Ashigbey, Managing...
Government’s Anti-Galamsey Resolve ‘very High’
The resolve of the Akufo-Addo government to clamp down on illegal small-scale mining in Ghana is not in question, John Peter Amewu, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has said. According to...
Akufo-Addo Lacks ‘balls’ To Fight Galamsey – Agbey
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo does not have the fortitude to fight illicit small-scale mining (galamsey) in the country because some members of his party who may have financed his campaign...
Half A Loaf Is Better Than None – Importers Association Tells Ato Forson
The Executive Secretary of the Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana, Samson Asaki Awingobit, says the former Deputy Minister of Finance in the erstwhile Mahama administration, Ato Forson does...
Ministers of State For Agric and Education Critical To My Success – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has defended his decision to name two Ministers of State at the Education and Agric Ministries. The President has come under intense criticism for appointing Ministers of State...
NDC To Break Up?
Predictions by political analysts in the run up to last year’s election that a defeat for either of the two dominant political parties could spell doom as a result of shock and the storm the defeat...
Biased ACEP’s AMERI Analysis Not Credible – Kwabena Donkor
Former Power Minister Dr Kwabena Donkor has questioned the objectivity of analysis made by the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) with regards to Government of Ghana’s deal with AMERI Energy,...
Parliament Passes Energy Sector Levies Amendment Bill
Parliament has passed the Energy Sector Levies Amendment Bill which will review the two components of the Levies downwards. While the national electrification scheme levy goes down from 5% to 2%, the...
I Have Never Been Involved In Galamsey – Wontumi
Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Bosiako says he has never in his life been engaged in illegal mining popularly known as galamsey. He indicated that,...