Former President, John Dramani Mahama, has criticized government’s blanket ban and indiscriminate arrest of small scale miners in its quest to fight galamsey. He says, the government should rather...
14-year-old, 9 others arrested for ‘galamsey’ at Gomoa Oguaakrom Ten suspected illegal miners, including teenagers, were at the weekend arrested at Gomoa Oguaakrom in the Central Region. The...
Energy expert, Kwadwo Poku is in agreement with First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu urging soldiers to shoot and kill persons involved in illegal mining known as galamsey, when...
Four Chinese and three Ghanaian illegal miners operating in the Pra River in Twifo Abuboi in the Central Region have been arrested. The illegal small-scale miners were arrested by the Twifo...
Three Chinese and a Ghanaian have been arrested in the Diaso Forest, near Ayiem in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region for engaging in illegal mining. They are: Wi, Pancho Hu, Tan...
Mr Mustapha Hamid, Minister of Information, Wednesday said the fight against illegal mining would continue unabated until all illegalities in the mining sector was regularised and sanity restored in...
A Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Barbra Oteng Gyasi, says government is yet to decide on when to lift the ban on small-scale mining activities in the country. According to the...
The Western Regional Command of Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) repatriated hundreds of illegitimate foreign nationals from the region, a senior officer has said. Speaking on the sidelines of the...
Three illegal miners have been arrested by the Asokwa District Police at Nweneso in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region. They were arrested after the District Chief Executive for...
Media General Group made a great showing at this year’s Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Awards as staff bagged a total of five awards including the Best TV Reporting at a ceremony held on...
A total number of 31 ‘illegal miners’ who were dredging the Offin River, near Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Central Region have been arrested by a taskforce constituted by the Small Scale Miners...
Fifteen illegal miners operating within the Upper Denkyira East District of the Central Region have been arrested by a combined anti-galamsey taskforce. They have been handed over to the Police. A...
An Accra High Court has dismissed an application for a review of bail conditions filed by lawyer for Chinese galamsey kingpin Aisha Huang. According to the court, presided over by Justice Charles...
Small Scale Miners Association has expressed total disappointment in the government for extending ban on small scale mining. Members have therefore questioned the kind of policy government wants to...
A hectare of degraded land caused by the activities of illegal small-scale miners would cost the government GH¢ 60,000 to restore it to the natural state, Mr John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands...
The government of Nana Akufo-Addo has been taking giant strides towards ensuring that illegal mining commonly known in Ghana as galamsey becomes a story of the past, together with all its associated...
Remeber the former Ghana international Junior Agogo who was hit by a stroke after retiring from football? He recently granted his first official interview with BBC, since suffering the debilitating...
Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Mafo has described illegal fishing as “galamsey on the seas” and so recommended tough measures in fighting the menace. “I think somehow we have to make a very strong...
After almost two months of fighting illegal small-scale mining, popularly known as galamsey, in three regions, the first batch of officers from the Ghana Armed Offices and the Ghana Police Service...
The Minister of Lands, Forestry and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has revealed that government is in the process of procuring drones worth about three million dollars ($3m) to facilitate the...
