Ghana Vigilante Groups Are Outlaws
The Minister for National Security, Mr Albert Kan Dapaah has warned vigilante groups against carrying out operations in Ghana as they have no legal recognition. Speaking to the parliament on...
Tag: galamsey
Akufo-Addo Unveils Anti-Galamsey Strategy This Week
President Nana Akufo-Addo will this week unveil government’s strategy to deal with the menace of illegal mining in the country (galamsey). Ahead of the announcement of how to deal with the...
Freeze Small-Scale Mining
The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has appealed to the government to freeze small-scale mining because it is not different from illegal mining (galamsey) that is destroying water bodies and...
Ghana Is Losing School Children To Galamsey – GNAT
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has expressed concern that many children of school going age are constantly being taken out of the classroom into mining pits to engage in of illegal...
Sacrificing Fishes For Oil; A ‘galamsey’ Threat Offshore
In Ghana, virtually every part is opened for mining. As a result, 8 out of the 10 regions are currently grappling with the effects of illegal alluvial gold mining. Galamsey activities are on the...
COA Marks Global Peace Mission Festival
Dr. Duncan pointed out that for peace to prevail there must be love, truth and understanding Centre of Awareness (COA), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), operating from Owusorkrom in the...
COA Marks Global Peace Mission Festival
Centre of Awareness (COA), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), operating from Owusorkrom in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese(AAK) District of the Central Region, has held a peace festival to promote and...
Let’s Fix the Canker of Galamsey
"We can’t solve it, we can’t fix it, we don’t have the locus and moral might to fix it ,we don’t have the Political will to fix it ,We just don’t want to fix it , We can’t tell the...
Ghana Is Losing School Children To Galamsey
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) says a chunk of children of school going age are constantly being taken from the classroom through the activities of illegal miners (Galamsey). GNAT...
Chinese Are “economic Guerrillas” – Martey
The former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Martey has waded into the fight against galamsey in the country, describing the Chinese as economic guerrillas. He said he...
Don’t Come To Me To Plead For Galamseyers
Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfour has sent a warning to persons in authority not to attempt coming to his office to plead for any person who is arrested for illegal mining. He said there...
Akufo-Addo Has Best Opportunity To Fight Galamsey – Sam George
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has the best opportunity to fight small scale illegal mining in the country following the massive support and backing from the media, civil society organizations...
China Angry Over Biased Reportage,treatment of Nationals
The China mission in Ghana is upset with the barrage of media reportage citing Chinese nationals as complicit in Ghana’s soaring challenge of illegal small-scale mining popularly called galamsey....
Interior Minister Ambrose Dery, Is This Police Behaviour Acceptable To You?
Ghana is a very funny place. Hypocrisy and selfishness have eaten so much into our social fabric that some of us are even ready to assist in our own self-destruction. Currently, a video in the Twi...
The Media Is Hypocritical; Never Helped Mahama Fight Galamsey – Suhuyini
Controversial Tamale North MP, Alhassan Suhuyini has bemoaned the lack of support for the erstwhile administration on the part of the media on their fight against galamsey. Alhassan Suhuyini who also...
Chinese Mission Cautions Ghana Over Arrest of Illegal Miners
The Chinese Mission in Ghana has served a strong caution to the Government of Ghana that “it will be extremely harmful to the bilateral relations” between the two countries if there are reports...
Legalize Galamsey – Casely-Hayford To Government
Financial analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford has called for the legalization of small scale illegal mining commonly called galamsey in Ghana. According to him, it can be captured under a category he...
Casely-Hayford To Gov’t
Financial analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford has called for the legalization of small scale illegal mining commonly called galamsey in Ghana. According to him, it can be captured under a category he...
NewsFile On JoyNews
play videoNewsfile airs on Saturdays from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Multi TV's JoyNews channel This week's edition of NewsFile focused on a number of trendy political and social issues including...
Parliament Vows To Lead Fight Against Galamsey
Ghana’s legislative body, Parliament has assured of its leading role in the fight against illegal mining commonly known as galamsey in the country. Parliament made the pledge on the back of a...