Court Quashes Revocation of Mining Lease To Ibrahim Mahama
A High Court in Accra has quashed the decision by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources to revoke the ...
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Forest Watch Backs Supreme Court Action Against Exton Cubic
Civil society organisation Forest Watch Ghana (FWG) has backed a move to legally contest the mining right given Exton Cubic ...
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 in the Central Region ...
Land Valuation Division Begins National Exercise To Revalue Properties In MMDAs
Land Valuation Division (LVD) of the Lands Commission, under the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, has announced that it ...
Minister Fingers ECG For ‘promoting Galamsey’
The Electricity Company of Ghana has been accused of contributing to illegal mining activities, popularly known as galamsey, in the ...
Implementation of Anti-Galamsey Plan To Cost $150 Million
Government’s proposed solution to ending the illegal mining menace also known as galamsey in the country will cost about $150 ...
Ghana To Spend $150m On Alternative Livelihood Prog For Illegal Miners
An estimated 150 million dollars is expected to be used for the implementation of the government’s multilateral mining integrated project, ...
I’m Not Against Mining – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo Addo has rejected claims that he is against mining in the country. According to him, he is instead against ...
Soldiers, Police To Chase Night ‘galamseyers’, Others
The Lands and Natural Resources Ministry has said it will deploy a combined team of military and police personnel to ...
Six ‘galamseyers’ Arrested At Ayiem
Six persons who were involved in illegal small scale mining at Ayiem, a farming community in the Mpohor District of ...
Lands Ministry Names Mining Firms With ‘military Protection’
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has named some mining firms that will from henceforth have military protection. This ...
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 done “simultaneously ...
Why Mass Burial Was Given To 22 Trapped Victims
The Prestea mine collapse victims were given a mass burial as rescue team could not find the 22 trapped persons… ...
Hunt For Survivors After Ghana Goldmine Collapse
Rescuers were on Tuesday scrambling to locate survivors after an illegal goldmine collapsed in western Ghana, trapping at least 17 ...
Gov’t Losing Momentum In Galamsey Fight – Akandor
The government is gradually losing momentum in the fight against illegal mining popularly known as galamsey. This is according to ...
Rawlings Marks 70th Birthday Caring For the Environment
As part of activities marking the 70th birthday of former President Jerry John Rawlings, a public symposium on the environment will ...
Farmers Soon To Claim Ownership of Commercial Trees
A Tree Tenure Policy would soon roll-out to provide farmers the legal right to claim ownership of commercial trees planted ...
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 Resources ...
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 ...
Violence Looms As Chinese Firm Defies Mining Order In Talensi
Some natives of Gbani, a rural community in the Talensi District of the Upper East region, have spoken strongly of ...