Peter Amewu Orders Closure of Illegal Mining Firm, Arrests Four Expatriates
Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Peter Amewu, has caused the arrest of four expatriates operating an illegal gold mine at ...
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Peter Amewu Orders Closure of Illegal Mining Firm, Arrests Four Expats
Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Peter Amewu, has caused the arrest of four expatriates operating an illegal gold mine at ...
Galamsey Devastation Forces Minister To Abandon Road Tour To Arrest One Person
The devastation from illegal small scale mining at Fahiakobo, a notorious galamsey community in the Amansie Central District, on Monday ...
Amewu Seeks Finance Ministry Clearance To Deploy More Forest Guards In Galamsey Fight
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John-Peter Amewu, is seeking clearance from the Ministry of Finance to employ 400 ...
Amewu Gets Ram For Fighting Galamsey
Volunteers against Environmental Degradation (VAED) Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with special interest in environmental issues, has showered praises on ...
Girl, 16 Dies After Committing Abortion
File photo, the victim was said to be carrying a 4 month old pregnancy A 16 year-old girl has died ...
Amansie West Selected Model District For Excellence
The Amansie West District has been selected out of the 30 districts in the Ashanti Region as a model District ...
Small Scale Miners Disagree With Lands Minister Over Moratorium
The government and the Association of Small Scale Miners appear to have both taken entrenched positions on the temporary ban ...
Chief of Ejisu Hot As Youth Petition Otumfuo For His Removal
A group calling itself the Indigenous Concerned Youth of Ejisu – Akyawkrom in the Ejisu – Juabeng municipality in the ...
Bosomtwe Assembly Confirms Asuming As DCE
Joseph Kwasi Asuming, has received overwhelming endorsement by the Bosomtwe District Assembly as the District Chief Executive (DCE). Forty-seven (47) ...
Youth Demonstrate Over Lack of Development In the Ashanti Region
The youth took to the street to express their displeasure The indigenous concern youth of Ejisu – Akyawkrom in Ejisu- ...
Uncovered Galamsey Pits Plunge Amansie West Into Malaria Endemic Area
Abandoned illegal mining pits with stagnant water in the Amansie West District of Ashanti Region have become breeding grounds for ...
Ejisu-Juaben Gaining Notoriety For Rejecting Nominees
Assembly members in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality in the Ashanti Region have rejected the President's nominee, Madam Beatrice Serwaa Derkyi. At ...
Delta Force 8 Can’t Be Re-Arrested – Lawyer
The Lawyer for the eight Delta Force members in the Ashanti Region who were freed recently after they raided a ...
Illegal Miners In Manso Area Defy Government Ban On Galamsey
Illegal miners at Manso Tontokrom and Datano in the Amansie West district of the Ashanti Region are defying government's directive ...
Don’t Act As ‘Tin’ Gods
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah has warned all confirmed Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the ...
Freeing Delta Force 8 Bad PR Move For Government – Irbard
Security Analyst, Irbard Ibrahim has described the decision of the Attorney General’s Department to discontinue a case in which 8 ...
Ghana Immigration Service Boss ‘hot’ Over ‘Galamsey Queen’
A leaked audio tape purported to have been recorded by assigns of the Chinese galamsey queen, Aisha Haung, has put ...
NPP Didn’t Treat Us Well – Freed Delta Force Members
Eight members of the Vigilante group, Delta Force, affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) who were freed by ...
Police Abandon New Station At Parkoso
Many find it mindboggling that in the midst of scarcity, a completed and well furnished police station would be abandoned ...