Government says it would engage the services of the police and military in the second phase of the fight against the illegal small scale mining popularly known as galamsey. The canker has greatly...
Minister for Land and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, is advocating a radical solution to the menace of illegal mining. He believes the excavators with which the illegal miners are wreaking...
It is a glaring scenario and reality that for many years, we have succeeded in selling our birth right to foreigners. Particularly, in recent times, we seem to have sold it to the Chinese, who have...
President of the Ghana Journalists Association, (GJA) Mr. Affail Monney, has said galamsey has defied many solutions, rules and regulations orchestrated in an attempt to ban its operations. In an...
President of the Ghana Journalists Association, (GJA) Mr. Affail Monney, has said galamsey has defied many solutions, rules and regulations orchestrated in an attempt to ban its operations. In an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Leader of the United Front Party (UFP), Nana Agyenim Boateng, has described the lands and natural resources minister’s three-week ultimatum to illegal miners to halt their activities as government...
The government of Ghana has put a moratorium on licensing of small-scale miners. Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, says the moratorium is aimed at helping fight the illegal...
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr. John Peter Amewu has assured that he will support the media campaign against the menace. Speaking at the launch of the media coalition against illegal...
Editor of the Al-Hajj newspaper and a self-confessed sympathizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Iddrisu Bature has asked members of the NPP to stop wasting time assuring...
Media houses in Ghana have joined forces in the fight against a canker that has bedeviled the country for years now, threatening the very existence of its citizens. This canker, illegal mining...
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, whose duty is to ensure that government ends the illegal mining menace, appears helpless, and has rather stated his support for the...
Some illegal small scale miners at Bonsa in the Tarkwa Nsuaem municipality of the Western Region have asked the government to exercise caution in its attempt at clamping down on their activities. The...
By: Austin Brakopowers If there’s one advice I will proffer to the Lands and Forestry Minister, John Peter Amewu, it is that he should stop talking and begin to act. Talk is akin to a gun with an...
It is one news item that has succeeded securing a spot on almost every aspect of Ghana’s news media. Ordinarily, topical issues in my country take at most a week to be talked about in the media...
The former Environment Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Inusah Fuseini has pointed to a well-oiled network of Chinese influence that is determined to keep the galamsey business booming for their...
