GWCL To Residents
The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has cautioned residents living around the Weija Dam in Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region to evacuate following the on-going opening of the dam...
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State Institutions Owe GHC95million In Water Bills In Ashanti
The Ghana Water Company says a GHC95million debt owed it by 24 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies and other state institutions in the Ashanti Region alone is hampering its expansion...
GWCL Cuts Water Supply To Firms Over GHC40m Debt
The Ashanti North branch of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has suspended water supply to both state and private institutions in the area over unpaid bills. The Manager of GWCL for Ashanti...
Ghana Water Company Makes Gains On Galamsey Ban
The Ghana Water Company says it has started recording low turbidity level of raw water at its treatement headworks at Daboase in the Western Region. Western Regional Communication Officer of the...
Move Away From Wasteful Spending
Central Regional Minister Kwamina Duncan, has asked Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) to move away from wasteful spending to save hard-earned money for accelerated...
1,000 Excavators Retrieved By Government
A member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, has revealed that the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has retrieved over 1,000 excavators from various mining sites in the...
Galamsey Got Out of Hand Under Mahama – Rev. Prof. Martey
Former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church Rev Prof Emmanuel Martey says it was in former President Mahama’s administration that the illegal mining popularly called galamsey got out of hand. Prof....
US, Netherlands Pledge Support For Galamsey Fight
The United States and The Netherland Embassies in Ghana have pledged support for the country’s fight against illegal mining. According to the US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson, the fight...
Illegal Miners Return To River Pra In Western Region
Barely a week after Citi News reported on the return of illegal miners in some communities in the Eastern Region, another notorious group has returned to mine illegally in the Pra River at Daboase in...
Galamsey Returning – Segyimase, Akrofusu Residents Express Fears
Reports from Segyimase near Kyebi in the East Akim Municipality of the Eastern Region indicate that illegal mining activities are gradually resurfacing. These indications come some three weeks after...
Segyimase, Akrofusu Residents Express Fears
Reports from Segyimase near Kyebi in the East Akim Municipality of the Eastern Region indicate that illegal mining activities are gradually resurfacing. These indications come some three weeks after...
Water Research Institute Calls For Legalization of Galamsey
The Water Research Institute (WRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) says government will be effective at monitoring activities of small scale miners if it legalizes...
Blackout To Cause Water Shortage
The Ghana Water Company Limited has warned last night’s nationwide power outage could interrupt water supply across the country. The entire country was plunged into darkness on Wednesday night as a...
Circle Interchange Potholes Get Attention After Citi News Report
Officials of the Department of Urban Roads, have started fixing the deep potholes that have developed on a part of the Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange following a Citi News report. A report by Citi...
Catholic Priests Backs Government Galamsey Fight With ‘operation Touch Heaven’
Some Catholic Priests from areas where there is illegal mining activities in the Central Region have launched a campaign to support government efforts to end the menace. The campaign christened...
Galamsey Affecting Water Production In Ghana
The Managing Director (MD) of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) Ing Dr Clifford Braimah has bemoaned the level of water pollution in the country indicating that it gravely affects the production...
Making the One-District-One Factory Policy A Reality
The one district one factory policy vision that inspired hope of employment for the large number of the unemployed, when Ghanaians were presented with the choice of leadership in the 2016 general...
Lands Minister Destroys Sachet Water Belonging To Illegal Miners
The Lands Minister has destroyed bags of sachet of water belonging to some illegal miners at Tumentu in the Western Region. The minister and a media entourage found a metal cage where bags of sachet...
Galamsey Operator Cries
An illegal miner in the Eastern region says he feels betrayed by the governing New Patriotic Party which he supported to come to power. Kojo – not his real name – who has been involved in ilegal...
Galamsey Continues On Pra River Despite Ban
Illegal mining activities along the Pra River in the Western Region continue unabated despite the coming into force the ban on all forms of illegal small scale mining, popularly known as galamsey, in...