Farmer Beheads Son In Western Region
The father says he murdered the boy in order to sell his body parts A 31-year-old farmer, Abdul Salam, has been arrested at Adidaase near Amanso Amenfi in the Wassa Amenfi East district of Western...
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Threats of Losing Election Won’t Stop Galamsey Fight – Nana Addo
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...
I Didn’t Promise DCE From Elubo – Jomoro MP
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Jomoro in Western Region, Paul Essien, has denied promising that he was going to ensure that for the first time, a District Chief Executive is...
I Didn’t Promise DCE From Elubo
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Jomoro in Western Region, Paul Essien, has denied promising that he was going to ensure that for the first time, a District Chief Executive is...
GHc1.14 Bn Needed To Restore Galamsey Affected Lands In Western Region
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...
Prestea Chief Pledges Support For MP Over Galamsey Fight
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...
Appoint Jomoro DCE From Elubo Or Lose 2020 – Youth Group Cautions
A group calling itself the Concerned Youth of Elubo in the Jomoro District of the Western Region has asked President Akufo-Addo to appoint a District Chief Executive for Jomoro from the Elubo...
Man Murders Son For Rituals
Police in the Western region has arrested a middle-aged man for the alleged gruesome murder of his son for ritual purpose. The suspect, Abdul Salam, 36-year-old farmer buried the child in a shallow...
One Dead, 2 Others Hospitalized After Falling Into Galamsey Pit
One person has died while two others have been hospitalized after they fell into an abandoned galamsey pit at Kwabedu, a suburb of the Tarkwa Nsuaem municipality of the Western region. An eye witness...
Government To Reclaim 1.5 Per Cent of Degraded Lands
The 1.5 per cent degraded lands out of the 238,000 kilometre square of the country, would be rehabilitated, Mr John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has announced. He said...
Chiefs Lead Operation To Destroy Galamsey Equipment
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...
Chiefs Lead Operation To Destroy Galamsey Equipment
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...
Ekpu Youth Abandon Town For Fear of Police
Youth who fled Ekpu, a fishing community near Half Assini in the Jomoro District of the Western Region, for fear of being brutalized by police are yet to return to the town, according to the...
Prestea Residents Kick Against Galamsey Ban
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...
Daboase Plant Still Under Threat From Galamsey
The illegal mining remains a major threat to River Pra and the Daboase water treatment plant in the Wassa East District, according to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in the Western Region....
Methodist Church Joins Fight Against Galamsey To Save the Environment
The Diocesan Bishop of the Methodist Church at Sekondi, Right Reverend, Daniel De-graft Brace, has declared the support of the Church in the fight against illegal small scale mining, popularly known...
EOCO Invites PSGL Managers
Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) under its new Executive Director, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), K. K. Amoah, has invited the immediate past board of directors of Prestea Sankofa...
EOCO Invites PSGL Managers
ECONOMIC and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) under its new Executive Director, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), K. K. Amoah, has invited the immediate past board of directors of Prestea Sankofa...
Amewu Stops ‘recalcitrant’ Mining Company From Operating
The Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Peter Amewu has ordered the Okobeng Mining company to immediately cease operation in the Nzema East Municipality of the Western Region. This was because the...
Communities Affirm Support For Damang Mine
The Divisional Chiefs of WassaSubri, Wassa Damang, and Huni Valley, have expressed unflinching support for Gold Fields’ Damang Mine, as the company embarks on its next major phase of development at...