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SONA 2018: NHIS Funding Stirs Debate Between Majority, Minority

Reactions are sharply divided between the Majority and Minority on the president’s State of the Nation address. Key...

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Extension of Ban Pointless; Small Scale Miners Cry Foul

Small Scale Miners Association has expressed total disappointment in the government for extending ban on small scale...

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Govt To Spend $3m On Drones To Nab Illegal Miners

The Minister of Lands, Forestry and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has revealed that government is in the process...

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What Operation Vanguard Is Saying

Four alleged illegal miners are reported to have died under strange and mysterious circumstances at Akukuso, a village...

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10 Businesses That Can Replace Illegal Mining

The interesting thing is that most of these recommended galamsey alternative jobs are quite easier, safer and more...

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Anti-Galamsey Team Destroys Illegal Mining Equipment

A combined anti-galamsey (illegal mining) task-force and monitoring team in the Upper-Denkyira East and West Districts...

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Galamsey: Two Confirmed Dead

Two persons have been confirmed dead after an illegal mining pit caved in at Petrensa in the Asante Akyim Central...

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Prestea; A Town of Gold With Ugly Roads

The name Prestea sounds familiar right? Yea, it’s a long known town in Ghana for obvious reasons. It’s a land rich...

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We’ve Not Given Up On Galamsey Fight – Bawumia

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has said government has not given up on the fight against illegal mining...

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Stop Galamsey But Assist Miners – GGDP Urges Gov’t

The Ghana Growth and Development Platform (GGDP) says it supports governments effort to stop galamsey, but wants this...

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Was Upper Denkyira West DCE Right After All?

It was Tuesday 30th May 2017. Many Ghanaians had woken up to viral videos of the gruesome killing of a soldier. That...

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US Ambassador Wants Galamsey To Be Formalized

Mr Robert P. Jackson, US Ambassador has expressed the believe that formalising the small scale mining (Galamsey) would...

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4 Russian, Ukranian ‘galamseyers’ Get GHC200,000 Bail Each

The four Russians and Ukranians arrested in the Ashanti Region for engaging in small scale mining without appropriate...

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Lands Ministry, Minerals Commission Sued

Gold Ghana Limited, a small-scale mining firm in the Western Region, has sued the Ministry of Lands and Natural...

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Mining Firm Sues Lands Ministry, Others Over Withdrawal of License

Gold Ghana Limited, a small scale mining firm in the Western Region, has sued the Ministry of Lands and Natural...

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3 Russians, Ukranian Arrested For Galamsey Charged

Three Russians and a Ukrainian arrested at Tontokrom in the Ashanti Region for allegedly flouting the nation’s mining...

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Court To Decide Whether To Grant Bail To Four Russians Arrested For Galamsey

The Circuit Court in Accra will on June 14 decided whether to grant bail to the four Russians arrested in the Ashanti...

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Court To Decide Whether To Grant Bail To 4 Russians Arrested For Galamsey

The Circuit Court in Accra will on June 14 decided whether to grant bail to the four Russians arrested in the Ashanti...

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Three Chinese Arrested For ‘galamsey’

Three Chinese nationals have been arrested near Kyebi in the Eastern Region for engaging in illegal mining. A surface...