Small scale miners in the Ashanti Region have expressed readiness to assist the government in fighting the menace of illegal mining, popularly referred to as galamsey. The Ghana National Association...
According to him, his Unit has been notified by the government to prepare themselves to give critica The Commanding Officer (CO) of 4 Infantry Battalion, Lt Col Sebastian Abraham Arhin has stated...
Lieutenant Colonel GNK Hoenyedzi, the commanding officer of second Battalion of Infantry (2Bn), Takoradi, has been suspended and recalled to the Southern Command headquarters in Accra to face an...
The Stop Galamsey Operation Taskforce in Dunkwa in the Central Region has destroyed 19 machines used by galamsey operators. The machines were used by the operators to mine on River Offin which serves...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says threats to vote him out in the 2020 election will not stop his government’s anti-galamsey fight. He said he will carry through his government’s plan to...
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has said that government intends to sustain its fight against illegal mining by using an aggressive approach where necessary, to ensure...
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...
The Paramount Chief of Prestea-Himan Traditional Area, Nana Ntaboah Prah IV, has told the Member of Parliament for the Prestea Huni-Valley Constituency in the Western Region, who is also the Deputy...
Illegal small-scale miners also known as (galamsey) in the Amansie West district of the Ashanti Region have threatened to return to their sites. According to the illegal miners, government would have...
The Small Scale Miners Association in Kumasi says it will petition the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over government’s decision to stop galamsey. The Association said it wants the Asantehene to...
Some aggrieved artisanal miners in the Ashanti region are to petition the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over government’s fight to halt illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, across the...
Nine district mine officers of the Minerals Commission have been asked to proceed on indefinite leave with immediate effect. The dismissal followed their purported failure to ensure effective...
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has said that all illegal miners will be engaged in tree planting and other reclamation programmes to help restore lands affected by...
IN the wake of the anti-galamsey campaign by government and the media, residents of Prestea, Heman and surrounding villages in the Prestea-Huni-Valley District of the Western Region led by their...
IN the wake of the anti-galamsey campaign by government and the media, residents of Prestea, Heman and surrounding villages in the Prestea-Huni-Valley District of the Western Region led by their...
Everywhere you look headlines scream #Stop Galamsey Now! But, if you have lived in a place in Ghana where ‘Galamsey’ (i.e. artisanal/small-scale gold mining) is immense, you have seen it all. •...
Some residents of Prestea in the Prestea Huni Valley District of the Western Region, are kicking against the ban on all forms of small scale mining activities initiated by the Lands and Natural...
Government has heightened the fight against illegal mining by summoning mining companies that are still engaged in the act after the expiration of the 12-day ultimatum. Okobeng Mining Company has...
Following the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources’ declaration of a 21-day ultimatum to all illegal miners to cease their operations and surrender their equipment, a number of significant...
