The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has disclosed that the destructive activities of illegal miners are affecting its operation in some parts of the Eastern region. The company explains that, the...
I have over the years published my views on the ongoing devastating surface mining locally called galamsey. I once even directed a Member of Parliament to read my views emailed to him on the floor of...
former Member of Parliament for the Kade constituency, lawyer Ofosu Asamoah has posited that the fight against illegal mining popularly called galamsey is only a wish that will never come through due...
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...
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...
The imminent threat of Ghana’s water resources running dry in a few years gets scarier by the day. Water treatment plants are being shut down one after the other almost every time, due to...
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has revealed that the destructive activities of illegal miners are affecting its operation in some parts of the Eastern region. The company explained that the...
Calls to stop galamsey in Ghana, has been on a very high increase in recent times, with some of the agitations tagged stop galamsey now, anti-galamsey campaign, and things like that. Of course, the...
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has revealed that the destructive activities of illegal miners are affecting its operation in some parts of the Eastern region. The company explained that the...
A research fellow at the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Kojo Asante, has observed that illegal mining has become a norm in recent times because societies are aggrieved that a chunk of...
Small scale mining companies would not be able to renew their licence until the menace of illegal mining (galamsey) is addressed, Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Peter Amewu has declared. He...
Ivorian authorities have expressed grave concerns over the activities of illegal miners in Ghana, which they say is polluting their water bodies. Environment Minister, Professor Kwabena Frimpong...
The Ghana Water Company Limited’s (GWCL) efforts to work around the dire pollution brought on by illegal mining, is making its operations inefficient and less cost-effective. Very few of GWCL’s...
A research fellow at the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Kojo Asante, has observed that illegal mining has become a norm in recent times because societies are aggrieved that a chunk of...
Several challenges have come in the way of the long-lasting fight against the widespread practice of illegal mining in the country, otherwise known as galamsey. This has then led to calls by...
By Gideon Sackitey Right at the center of many a discussion today is the decision of the Ghana Police Service to accept a GHc50,000.00 donation from the Chairman of the Ghana Association of Chinese...
The argument that the people in galamsey threatened communities must rise up in protest sounds good on the face of it, but is a misplaced one in the light of the current exigencies. First of all, we...
A Media Coalition against illegal mining comprising major media organisations in the country was on Tuesday launched to wage a crusade against the menace. The Coalition would collect one million...
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Peter Amewu, yesterday announced that Government had suspended the issuance of licences for small scale mining in the country, as part of efforts to...
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has placed a moratorium on licences for small-scale mining in an attempt to properly map out strategies to clamp down on illegal mining activities across...
