The Aburihene and Adontenghene of Akropong Traditional Council, Nana Otuobour Djan Kwasi II, has denied accusing the Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panyin and other two paramount chiefs in...
It will cost Ghana at least GH¢1.4 billion to restore about fifty percent of lands affected by illegal mining activities in the Western region. This is the suggestion from some environmental...
The Chief of Aburi, Otubuor Gyan Kwasi II, has rendered an unqualified apology to the Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin and other chiefs in Akyem Abuakwa over some comments he made about the...
The Paramount Chief of Prestea-Himan Traditional Area, Nana Ntaboah Prah IV, has told the Member of Parliament for the Prestea Huni-Valley Constituency in the Western Region, who is also the Deputy...
Lieutenant Colonel GNK Hoenyedzi, Commanding Officer of 2 Battalion of Infantry (2Bn), Takoradi has been recalled to the Southern Command Headquarters as he faces a Board Of Inquiry (BOI) for his...
Illegal small-scale miners also known as (galamsey) in the Amansie West district of the Ashanti Region have threatened to return to their sites. According to the illegal miners, government would have...
The Small Scale Miners Association in Kumasi says it will petition the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over government’s decision to stop galamsey. The Association said it wants the Asantehene to...
One person has died while two others have been hospitalized after they fell into an abandoned galamsey pit at Kwabedu, a suburb of the Tarkwa Nsuaem municipality of the Western region. An eye witness...
Some aggrieved artisanal miners in the Ashanti region are to petition the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over government’s fight to halt illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, across the...
Nine district mine officers of the Minerals Commission have been asked to proceed on indefinite leave with immediate effect. The dismissal followed their purported failure to ensure effective...
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has said that all illegal miners will be engaged in tree planting and other reclamation programmes to help restore lands affected by...
IN the wake of the anti-galamsey campaign by government and the media, residents of Prestea, Heman and surrounding villages in the Prestea-Huni-Valley District of the Western Region led by their...
IN the wake of the anti-galamsey campaign by government and the media, residents of Prestea, Heman and surrounding villages in the Prestea-Huni-Valley District of the Western Region led by their...
Everywhere you look headlines scream #Stop Galamsey Now! But, if you have lived in a place in Ghana where ‘Galamsey’ (i.e. artisanal/small-scale gold mining) is immense, you have seen it all. •...
Illegal miners in Tarkwa-Breman in the Prestea Huni-Valley of the Western Region have said they will teach their Member of Parliament (MP), Barbara Oteng Gyasi a bitter lesson in the next general...
The Okyeman Youth Association (OYA) has called on the Aburihene, Otobour Gyan Kwasi, to render apology to the Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, for passing a derogatory remark about him....
The youth in Akyem have written to the Chief of Aburi, Otubuor Gyan Kwasi II, to render unqualified apology to Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Panin and all chiefs in Okyeman for citing them in illegal...
The Western Regional Minister, Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, has said that Ghana’s premium cocoa risks being banned on the international market, due to the huge “heavy metals” unleashed into the soil in...
The Western Regional Minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie, has said that Ghana’s premium cocoa risks being banned on the international market, due to the huge “heavy metals” unleashed into the soil in...
Some residents of Prestea in the Prestea Huni Valley District of the Western Region, are kicking against the ban on all forms of small scale mining activities initiated by the Lands and Natural...
