A member of the communication team of the National Democratic Congress, Chief Biney, has called on President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo to make public the details of his anti-galamsey action plan....
The interesting thing is that most of these recommended galamsey alternative jobs are quite easier, safer and more lucrative than illegal mining. It is no longer news that the newly launched...
Chinese ambassador meets Okyenhene -Head of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin believes that not all Chinese miners engage in illegal mining activities. The chief...
Officers of the joint police-military force tasked to fight illegal small scale mining – popularly known as galamsey – have touched base in their respective regions. The 400-membership...
Former head of the anti-galamsey taskforce, Brigadier General Daniel K. Mishio, wants the government to name and shame all politicians who are directly or indirectly sponsoring illegal small scale...
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...
Information reaching Today indicates that some police officers from the Asankragua District Police Command in the Wassa Amenfi West District of the Western Region on Monday, July 24, 2017 besieged...
Another illegal mining disaster has occurred at Wassa Nananko in the Amenfi East District in the Western Region, leaving one person dead and another seriously injured. The victim, who was identified...
It started like a simmering fire. We could not put it out. Now the fire has engulfed our touted independent and respected institution, the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana. The damage has...
A total of 400 police cum military personnel would be deployed to mining areas next week to counter the activities of illegal miners known as galamsey. This is part of government’s unrelenting...
IT might now dawn on us as a people that the war we have waged on galamsey is far from over. At least we now have a fair idea of the kind of people we are dealing with and how far they are...
A combined anti-galamsey (illegal mining) task-force and monitoring team in the Upper-Denkyira East and West Districts in the Central Region has confiscated and destroyed 26 dredging boats and 58...
Two persons have been confirmed dead after an illegal mining pit caved in at Petrensa in the Asante Akyim Central Municipality of the Ashanti Region. Two others also suffered various degrees of...
A mining taskforce has arrested 10 illegal Chinese miners within the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region. The miners, Today gathered, were operating in an abandoned mining tunnel at Efua...
As of press time yesterday four men who were part of a gang of six illegal miners at Patrensa, a town near Konongo in the Asante Akyim North District of the Ashanti Region, were reported to have...
MINERALS Commission of Ghana has warned politicians across the political divide to stop the habit of interfering in the fight against illegal small scale mining activities which is destroying water...
Patriensa collapse, as well as other unrecorded cases, are a manifestation of the effects land degradation and the likes… The town of Patriensa in the Asante-Akyem Central District of the Ashanti...
Prosecutors have told the court that the supposed Ghanaian of the Chinese ‘galamsey queen’ Aisha Huan is nowhere to be found. She is being tried with four other Chinese nationals for illegally...
The Electricity Company of Ghana has been accused of contributing to illegal mining activities, popularly known as galamsey, in the country. A minister for Lands and Natural Resources Benito Owusu...
Ten Chinese illegal Miners have been arrested by police in Tarkwa in the Western Region. They were arrested upon a tip off by one of the galamsey taskforces in the area. The illegal miners were...
