It is on record that President Mahama and his NDC government’s priority policy is ‘one Chief one Land Cruiser’ at the expense of the suffering Ghanaians. Actually, Mahama and his NDC strident...
Residents of Wassa Dawbo, a town in the Amenfi Central District in the Western Region have embarked on a demonstration to show their dissatisfaction against C&J Aleska, a Chinese mining company...
For decades sand wining and gravel extraction have become prevalent along the coast, where fishing is predominant. The combined effect of the sand winning and stone extraction is resulting in the...
President of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Mr. Kwame Addo-Kufuor, expects the price of gold to remain under pressure for most parts of 2016. This, he explained, will be largely due to the US Federal...
Brazilian prosecutors are charging 21 people with qualified homicide, a year after an iron ore mine disaster in the state of Minas Gerais. They include several Brazilians, two Americans, a South...
Hundreds of residents in Wassa Juabo in the Amenfi Central Municipality of the Western Region on Thursday, 20 October went on a demonstration against Chinese miners who have taken over large hectares...
The threats by illegal miners at Obuasi not to vote in December’s presidential and parliamentary polls if they are not allowed to resume their mining activities in the municipality do not hold up...
Galamseyers in the country will “fight to the death” to “protect their livelihood,” security analyst Dr Kwesi Aning has warned, and urged state security agencies to think through whatever...
There is no question that illegal gold miners are a real threat to national security in our homeland Ghana. Ditto illegal loggers and illegal sand-winners. That is why the wealthy criminal syndicates...
About 200 irate youth in the Obuasi East municipality of the Ashanti Region have vandalised the offices of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) amidst chants of “no galamsey, no...
The Minerals Commission has given the strongest indication yet for illegal miners still occupying the Obuasi concession, of AngloGold Ashanti, to evacuate the site or suffer ejection. This comes on...
The Minerals Commission has started the allocation of concessions to unauthorised miners who have invaded the AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) Obuasi Mines. The move is to relocate these miners without the...
Here is a typical example of Mahama’s incompetence Given President Mahama’s enthusiastic devotion to dishonouring promises, some of us were somehow on point to doubt President Mahama on his...
Given President Mahama’s enthusiastic devotion for dishonouring promises, some of us were somehow on point to doubt President Mahama on his promise to bring to a halt the activities of foreign...
The Friday October 14, 2016 edition of The Chronicle carried a story with the caption, “Nestlé Ghana re-uses 30% of its Treated Waste Water”. According to the story, the Tema factory of Nestlé...
A 14-day oil, gas and mining training workshop for some African journalists begins in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The workshop is being funded by Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), organized...
Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana has praised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the contents of its 2016 manifesto describing some aspects of the document as “noble.” According to President of IMANI...
Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana has praised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the contents of its 2016 manifesto describing some aspects of the document as “noble.” According President of the...
In my earlier rendition, which received a wide publication across the media landscape almost two weeks ago, I lamented on some of the dire ramifications of illegal mining and how we can turn the...
The National Democratic Congress says it is confident of annexing the two parliamentary seats for Obuasi because its candidates for the December polls are credible. Ashanti Regional Minister, John...
