A Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Barbra Oteng Gyasi, says government is yet to decide on when to lift the ban on small-scale mining activities in the country. According to the...
The Lands and Natural Resources Ministry has said it will deploy a combined team of military and police personnel to illegal mining areas to stop galamsey. This forms part of efforts to sustain the...
Gold Ghana Limited, a small-scale mining firm in the Western Region, has sued the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources at the Tarkwa High Court for terminating a Mineral Prospecting License...
Gold Ghana Limited, a small scale mining firm in the Western Region, has sued the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources at the Tarkwa High Court for terminating a Mineral Prospecting License...
Ghana is not poor afterall; We did not need Aisha Huang to come and tell us They came from thousands of miles away, crossing oceans and mountains, arrived in the country and went deep into our...
A former deputy Interior Minister has said the fight against illegal mining known as galamsey will be successful if all Ghanaians are brought on board. James Agalga said there is the need for a...
The Lands and Natural Resources Ministry has sought to discredit a supposed Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) report, implicating the military, the Minerals Commission, and some chiefs in...
The Lands and Natural Resources Ministry has sought to discredit a supposed Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) report, implicating the military, the Minerals Commission, and some chiefs in...
Pastors in the country have been urged to allow the use of their pulpits as a platform to combat illegal mining. There has been months of sustained crusade against illegal mining known as galamsey in...
Ghana lost a whopping $2.3 billion in 2016 through ‘galamsey’ activities. Isaac Karikari, a Director at the Lands and Natural Resources Ministry, who made the revelation, said the losses...
President Nana Addo has called the bluff of illegal miners threatening to vote against his party in the 2020 elections, if he continues with his anti galamsey fight. Speaking at Soabe in the Eastern...
It will cost Ghana at least GH¢1.4 billion to restore about fifty percent of lands affected by illegal mining activities in the Western region. This is the suggestion from some environmental...
One thing that has become clear since the Government began to take the galamsey problem seriously is that the actual scale of the woeful pestilence has been under-estimated by most people in Ghana....
One thing that has become clear since the Government began to take the galamsey problem seriously is that the actual scale of the woeful pestilence has been under-estimated by most people in Ghana....
Lands and Natural Resource Minister, John Peter Amewu could not come to terms with the explanation provided by the Chief Executive Officer of the Minerals Commission, Dr. Tony Aubyn over a...
Lands and Natural Resource Minister, John Peter Amewu could not come to terms with the explanation provided by the Chief Executive Officer of the Minerals Commission, Dr. Tony Aubyn over a...
Some Ghanaian businessmen in China have complained about harassment from Chinese officials in what is seen as retaliation to the clampdown on illegal mining in Ghana. Chinese nationals are heavily...
The Volta north constituency executive members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have appealed to President Akufo-Addo to appoint a minister from their constituency Many people from the Volta Region...
Unionized workers of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) have threatened to resume their strike if government fails to hand over the entire 640 acres of land for the installation of their...
