Executive Director of IDEG, Dr Emmanuel Akwetey, has asserted that Ghana’s state institutions are being controlled and manipulated by powerful unseen individuals who have special interests in the...
The Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South in the Central Region, Kwaku Ricketts Hagan has called for a ten- year ban on all forms of small scale mining. He believes this will ensure proper...
The Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South in the Central Region, Kwaku Ricketts Hagan has called for a ten- year ban on all forms of small scale mining. He believes this will ensure proper...
Three Russians and a Ukrainian accused of dealing in illegal mining (galamsey) at Tontokrom in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region have been dragged before the Accra Circuit Court. The...
One of the panellists on the extended New Day programme on 3FM on Saturday, May 27 has advocated a total ban on all forms of small-scale mining in Ghana. Edgar Wiredu, a political analyst, bemoaned...
Three Russians and a Ukrainian accused of dealing in illegal mining (galamsey) at Tontokrom in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region have been dragged before the Accra Circuit Court. The...
The Lands and Forestry Minister says illegal mining popularly known as ‘galamsey’ thrived because of the total breakdown of law in the country. John Peter Amewu said stopping galamsey is not...
Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Joseph Yammin alleged that ‘galamsey queen’, Asia Huang was also into armed robbery. He made this allegation while speaking on Kumasi-based Abusua FM....
A former Lands and Natural Resources Minister is seeing "glimpses of sustainability" in the current fight against galamsey mining despite being unhappy with the citizens disregard for the country's...
Former Eastern Regional Minister Victor Smith has refuted suggestions that he failed to tackle illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey. According to him, he was able to clamp down on the activity...
Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Joseph Yammin has urged officers of the Bureau of National Investigations to visit classified files of Asia Huang for more incriminating evidence against the...
The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has listed illegal mining and the erratic gas supply from Nigeria as a major dampener on its ability to transmit power efficiently to consumers. The national power...
Some people have ransacked and stolen almost every movable item belonging to the Geo Professional Services Limited (GPS Ltd), a mining firm, at Tontokrom in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti...
Asia Huang, who is widely known as Aisha, was nicknamed the "untouchable galamsey queen", for her hitherto uncanny ability to wriggle her way out of trouble each time law enforcement agents caught up...
The Defence Ministry will this morning (Friday) present a report on its investigations into alleged involvement of the Armed Forces in illegal mining to President Nana Akufo Addo. The Lands and...
The Ashanti Regional Minister Hon Simon Osei-Mensah will be joining the media under the auspices of The Press Foundation, TPF to wage a relentless war against illegal mining in the country. TPF has...
Government is recruiting mining engineers and inspectors as it enters the next stage of the anti-galamsey crusade. For a country, popular for producing gold, diamond and other minerals, only 12...
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and the Interior will be holding an emergency meeting today, May 24, to discuss news of the involvement of some military officers in illicit small-scale...
Pressure group, OccupyGhana has expressed happiness with the changes in charges filed by the state in the case involving The Republic versus En Huang and four others. It would be recalled that...
Pressure group, OccupyGhana has expressed happiness with the changes in charges filed by the state in the case involving The Republic versus En Huang and four others. It would be recalled that...
