Tag: Illegal Mining

Former President, John Dramani Mahama, has criticized government’s blanket ban and indiscriminate arrest of small scale miners in its quest ...

Energy expert, Kwadwo Poku is in agreement with First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu urging soldiers to shoot ...

One of the accused persons in the case in which Aisha Huang and some four other Chinese nationals are standing ...

Since gaining independence in 1957, Ghana has focused on improving access to education and achieving universal enrolment. Primary education became ...

The Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners is calling on government to immediately lift the ban on their activities ...

Four Chinese and three Ghanaian illegal miners operating in the Pra River in Twifo Abuboi in the Central Region have ...

Three Chinese and a Ghanaian have been arrested in the Diaso Forest, near Ayiem in the Upper Denkyira West District ...

Mr Mustapha Hamid, Minister of Information, Wednesday said the fight against illegal mining would continue unabated until all illegalities in ...

A Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Barbra Oteng Gyasi, says government is yet to decide on when to ...

The Ghana Journalists Association has presented prizes to awardees of the 2016 GJA Awards. Journalist of the Year Kwame Sefa ...

Three illegal miners have been arrested by the Asokwa District Police at Nweneso in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the ...

Fifteen illegal miners operating within the Upper Denkyira East District of the Central Region have been arrested by a combined ...

An Accra High Court has dismissed an application for a review of bail conditions filed by lawyer for Chinese galamsey ...

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

A hectare of degraded land caused by the activities of illegal small-scale miners would cost the government GH¢ 60,000 to ...

The government of Nana Akufo-Addo has been taking giant strides towards ensuring that illegal mining commonly known in Ghana as ...

Ghana has denied media reports that it has cancelled the issuance of emergency entry visas, popularly referred to as visa ...

Commander of Operation Vanguard, Col William Agyapong is shocked by the 504 illegal miners arrested barely three months into its ...

The Omanhene of Nsein Traditional Area, Awulae Agyefi Kwame II, has commended President Akufo-Addo for the “courageous decision” to fight ...

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