What Is Wrong If Soldiers Kill Illegal Miners?
Energy expert, Kwadwo Poku is in agreement with First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu urging soldiers to shoot ...
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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 amongst the ...
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 mining. Members have ...
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 of ...
What Operation Vanguard Is Saying
Four alleged illegal miners are reported to have died under strange and mysterious circumstances at Akukuso, a village close to ...
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 lucrative than ...
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 ...
Galamsey: Two Confirmed Dead
Two persons have been confirmed dead after an illegal mining pit caved in at Petrensa in the Asante Akyim Central ...
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 ...
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 also known ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 bring sanity ...
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 licences, have ...
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 ...
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 laws, have ...
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 ...
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 ...
Three Chinese Arrested For ‘galamsey’
Three Chinese nationals have been arrested near Kyebi in the Eastern Region for engaging in illegal mining. A surface mining ...