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Akandoh Invokes ‘Antoa Nyama’ On Obiri Boahen Over Galamsey

Member of Parliament (MP) for Juaboso Constituency in the Western Region, Kwabena Minta Akandoh has rained curses on...

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Aisha Huang Was Involved In ‘robbery and Cocaine’ Business

Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Joseph Yammin has urged officers of the Bureau of National Investigations to...

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Defence Ministry To Submit Report On ‘galamsey Soldiers’ To President

The Defence Ministry will this morning (Friday) present a report on its investigations into alleged involvement of the...

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Deal With Illegal Miners At the District Level – Group Tells Amewu

Members of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Mining (GNASSM) have called on the government to deal with...

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Only 12 Mining Engineers Available In Ghana; Deputy Minister Needs Over 100

Government is recruiting mining engineers and inspectors as it enters the next stage of the anti-galamsey crusade. For...

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Gold Refinery To Create Jobs For Hundreds In Obuasi- Dannywise CEO

The Chief Executive Officer of Dannywise Estate and Construction Frank Danyansah  has declared an audacious ambition...

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Minister Causes Arrest of Galamseyer In Ashanti Region

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah has arrested a galamseyer who was spotted with several others...

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NPP To Name NDC Executives Engaged In Galamsey

Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Lawyer Obiri Boahen has accused the Member of Parliament (MP)...

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Soldiers Allegedly Protecting ‘galamseyers’ Won’t Be Spared – Nitiwul

The Defense Minister, Dominic Nitiwul has ordered the Chief of Defence Staff to launch an immediate investigation into...

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Kumbuor Approved Military Protection For Ukraine, Russia Galamseyers – MP

The Russia and Ukraine nationals arrested Monday for engaging in illegal mining officially requested for military...

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Russian Galamseyers Sought Protection From Kumbour – MP

The foreigners who were arrested for engaging in illegal mining activities on Monday applied for protection under the...

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Illegal Miners Smuggled $7bn Worth of Gold

More than $7 billion worth of gold obtained from illegal mining activities was smuggled from the country in 2016 alone,...

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Galamsey Fight Was An NPP Campaign Promise

The Akufo-Addo led government is doing what is contained in the 2016 manifesto of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in...

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Minister Sues NDC Paper Over ‘Galamsey Queen’

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, has sued The Republic – a pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC)...

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Galamsey Disrupts GRIDCo’s Work; Company Unable To Do Maintenance

The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) is unable to carry out maintenance works on its transmission lines within the Akwatia,...

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‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’- the ‘galamsey’ Tale

Though there exist laws on small scale mining, according to the 2008 Ghana Chamber of Mines report, illegal mining...

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Galamsey Queen Exposed

An aide to Aisha Huang, the Chinese lady believed to be an illegal mining queen in the country, has made shocking...

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Government To Resettle Galamsey Operators – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has indicated that his government is in the process of identifying alternative sources of...

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Alternative Sources of Livelihood For ‘galamseyers’ In the Offing – Prez Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the government is identifying alternative sources of livelihood for persons...