The Accra High Court has quashed the decision by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu, to revoke the mining exploration leases granted Exton Cubic. The court presided over by...
Small Scale Miners Association has expressed total disappointment in the government for extending ban on small scale mining. Members have therefore questioned the kind of policy government wants to...
Galamsey fight -In a bid to kick out the illicit act, the Military Command has deployed personnel to protect mining sites against illegal mining activities in the first phase of its long term...
The government has stepped up its fight against illegal mining activities as the Military prepares to deploy ten platoons to protect mining sites from the menace on Monday. The deployment today is...
Government’s proposed solution to ending the illegal mining menace also known as galamsey in the country will cost about $150 million. This was captured in the much hyped Multilateral Mining...
An audiovisual recording device believed to have been secretly planted in the office of the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu, has been discovered. Multiple sources at the...
The audiovisual recording device in the office of the Lands and Natural Resources Minister could have been planted there by persons against his fight against illegal mining (galamsey), security...
Latest: The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has begun an enquiry to unravel how a secret audio-visual device was placed in the office of the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter...
A mass burial service was on Friday, July 7, 2017, held for the twenty-two (22) illegal miners who were trapped in a galamsey pit at Nsuta in the Prestea Huni-Valley District of the Western Region....
The Prestea mine collapse victims were given a mass burial as rescue team could not find the 22 trapped persons… The illegal miners who were trapped in a Galamsey pit at Prestea in the Western...
The 22 illegal miners who were trapped in a Galamsey pit at Prestea in the Western Region have been given a mass burial after a search and rescue team indicated that their bodies could not be...
The Deputy Lands and Natural Resources Minister has with immediate effect, suspended search and rescue efforts for the victims of a collapsed mine pit at Prestea-Nsuta in the Western region. The...
The body of one of the 14 persons trapped in a collapsed mining pit at Prestea Nsuta in the Western Region has been retrieved. The body was retrieved by the 15 member rescue team deployed into the...
The Government is set to deploy the military to illegal mining areas as it begins a new chapter in the war against the menace. The move by the government follows the recent collapse of a mining pit...
The Lands and Natural Resources Minister John Peter Amewu has ordered the reopening of the Ghana School of Surveying and Mapping. Mr. Amewu directed the Lands Commission to shut down the school on...
About 500 workers of Shaanxi Mining Company Limited operating in Gbane in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region, who were sent home to enable the Inspectorate Division of the Minerals...
I have yet to pore over the full details of what President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had to say about the tragic early-morning lynching of Capt. Maxwell Mahama, of the 5th Battalion of Infantry, in the...
Military personnel found protecting an illegal mining site in the Ashanti Region, were deployed there in 2014, upon the request of a former Deputy Regional Minister, Joseph Yamin. The Ashanti...
The Ghana Armed Forces has defended the deployment of some of its men to protect Geo Professional Services Company, a mining company in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region, found to be...
The Ghana Armed Forces has defended the deployment of some of its men to protect Geo Professional Services Company, a mining company in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region, found to be...
