Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, under the NDC government, Joseph Yammin, said he lost his job as the head of the anti galamsey committee and also as the Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister for...
The paramount chief of Assin Owirenkyi Traditional Area, Nana Pra Agyensaim VI has chided small scale miners and people who are opposing government’s fight against galamsey. Those mounting...
The government and the Association of Small Scale Miners appear to have both taken entrenched positions on the temporary ban on all mining operations in the country. While government insists that the...
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has urged small-scale miners in the Ashanti Region to comply with government’s ban on all forms of small scale mining. According to him, the ban is a step in...
An Accra High Court has adjourned a bail application by the Chinese woman believed to be deeply engaged in illegal mining, Aisha Huang. According to the court presided over by Justice Charles Edward...
The Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu has said that his outfit determined to decisively apply the country’s laws against Chinese galamsey kingpin, Aisha Huang in spite of...
Major student unions in the country have resolved to get the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John-Peter Amewu, to backtrack on his decision to close down the School of Surveying and Mapping. Mr...
Major student unions in the country have resolved to get the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John-Peter Amewu, to backtrack on his decision to close down the School of Surveying and Mapping. Mr...
The Paramount chief of the Talensi traditional area, Tongraan kugblisong Nanlebegtang, has warned both licensed small scale miners and illegal miners in the area to stop mining with immediate effect....
The Okyehene has threatened to sue any individual or institution that mentions his name in any galamsey discussion. The warning comes on the back of a BNI report that fingered the paramount chief in...
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...
Aggrieved students of the Ghana School of Surveying and Mapping (GSSM) have described as insensitive the closure of the school by the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu....
The government has closed down the Ghana School of Surveying and Mapping (GSSM) following the recent clashes over land at the school. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, the Lands and Natural...
A Civil Society Group, Banfu Africa Research Institute (BARI) has asked Government to provide a blue print in terms of the alternative livelihood support programs for people engaged in galamsey....
Illegal galamsey miners are set to return to site not to deplete and pollute the environment but to work towards reclaiming areas devastated by the illegal mining activity. According to the Lands and...
Concerned Citizens of Talensi is calling on the Minerals Commission and Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources to revoke the mining licenses of two small-scale mining companies in Gbane in the...
The warlord of Somey Traditional Area, Awaklasuga Torgbui Sape Agbo V, has said the area disassociates itself from recent comments by a supposed Paramount Chief of the area, Togbui Adama III,...
Government has interdicted the nine district mining officers of the Minerals Commission who were asked to proceed on an indefinite leave, a week ago. The nine officers who supervised mining...
Government has interdicted the nine district mining officers of the Minerals Commission who were asked to proceed on an indefinite leave, a week ago. The nine officers who supervised mining...
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has commended the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Mr. John Peter Amewu for the efforts employed in the fight against illegal mining popularly called...
