31 Illegal Miners, Including Chinese Nationals Arrested
A total number of 31 ‘illegal miners’ who were dredging the Offin River, near Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Central Region have ...
Tag: Small Scale Miners Association
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 ...
Methodist Church Throws Caution On Towing Levy, Galamsey Fight
The Kumasi Diocese of the Methodist Church-Ghana has admonished the government to hasten slowly in the implementation of the national ...
220 Galamseyers Nabbed In Ashanti Region
About 220 illegal small-scale miners in the Ashanti Region who were operating despite a ban on the activity, have been ...
We’ve Also Fought Against Galamsey
Mike Gizo, Executive Member of the Small-scale Miners Association in the Ashanti Region, has said licensed small-scale miners have over ...
Otumfuo Supports Ban On Galamsey
Fight against illegal mining in the country received a massive boost last Friday, May 19, 2017 when the Asantehene Otumfuo ...
I Won’t Bow To Pressure – Amewu
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has said he will not kowtow to pressure from small-scale ...
14 Galamsey Machines Burnt On River Offin
A police and Anti Illegal Mining Joint Taskforce of the Small Scale Miners Association in the Ashanti region have raided ...
I Don’t Fear Election Defeat: I’II Continue To Clamp Down On Galamsey
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says threats to vote him out in the 2020 election will not stop his government’s ...
2020 Election Threats Won’t Stop My Anti-Galamsey Fight – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says threats to vote him out in the 2020 election will not stop his government’s ...
Galamseyers In Kumasi To Petition Otumfuo Over Gov’t Crack Down
The Small Scale Miners Association in Kumasi says it will petition the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over government’s decision ...
Our Galamsey Operations Is Not Near Water Bodies- Bole Residents
The Secretary of the Small Scale Miners Association in the Bole District, Mr Alhassan Abdul Razak has said that small ...
Arrest Chiefs Involved In Galamsey – Small Scale Miners Dare Government
Small Scale Miners Association has dared government to as a matter of urgency arrest any chief found culpable in illegal ...
Ghanaian Innovator Shortlisted For Africa Engineering Innovation Award
A Ghanaian IT professional, Sesinam Dagadu has been shortlisted for the prestigious Africa Engineering Innovation award. He is in the ...
Chinese Galamseyers Take Over Wassa Forests
Hundreds of residents in Wassa Juabo in the Amenfi Central Municipality of the Western Region on Thursday, 20 October went ...
Galamseyers Will ‘fight To Death’
Galamseyers in the country will “fight to the death” to “protect their livelihood,” security analyst Dr Kwesi Aning has warned, ...
No Galamsey, No Vote
About 200 irate youth in the Obuasi East municipality of the Ashanti Region have vandalised the offices of the governing ...