Galamsey: Lands Ministry intensifies security operations along Black Volta
The Lands and Natural Resources Ministry says it has intensified security operations in the Savannah Region to ward off illegal ...
Tag: Illegal Mining
Govt installs tracking devices on 68 excavators to combat illegal mining
The government has installed tracking devices on 68 excavators in Tarkwa, Prestea, Obuasi, Bibiani, and Bolgatanga as part of efforts ...
AkromaGold Ltd begins exercise to reclaim mined sites in Birim North District
AkromaGold Limited, a large-scale mining company located in the Eastern Region of Ghana, has begun an exercise to reclaim mined ...
Embrace nature-based solutions to restore degraded lands – CSIR
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has urged stakeholders to embrace nature-based solutions for the reclamation of mined-out ...
Weak enforcement of laws making our work difficult – Forestry Commission
The Forestry Commission says the weak enforcement of laws and the delay in addressing some forest offences in courts were ...
Tone down on your youthful exuberance – Prof Gyampo tells Special Prosecutor
A Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has advised the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, to ...
Don’t use unemployment as excuse to invade AngloGold mine – Lands Minister
Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor, has admonished residents of the mining town of Obuasi not to ...
I stand by everything in galamsey report – Frimpong-Boateng
The former chairman of the defunct Inter-ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has defended his report submitted ...
34 forest reserves under threat over galamsey – Forestry Commission
The Forestry Commission has revealed that 34 out of 288 forest reserves in the country are currently under threat due ...
Cases of over 700 illegal miners pending since January – AG laments
A total of one hundred and nineteen (119) criminal cases involving the prosecution of about seven hundred and twenty-seventy (727) ...
I have never engaged in galamsey – Lord Commey
The Director of Operations at the Presidency, Lord Commey, has strongly denied allegations of his involvement in illegal mining popularly ...
Ahanta chiefs arrest galamseyer, demand his prosecution
Some Ahanta Chiefs from the Upper Dixcove Traditional Council in the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western Region are demanding ...
We’re adopting new strategies to fight galamsey – Samuel Jinapor
The Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor says the government and the Military High Command are reviewing strategies ...
Stop ‘galamsey’ or face destoolment – Okyenhene warns Abuakwa chiefs
The Overlord of Akyem Abuakwa State, Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has warned chiefs in the Abuakwa Traditional area to ...
Aisha Huang’s son sent to Nsawam prison
The Accra Criminal Court 5 Division of the High Court has remanded Huang Lei, the son of Aisha Huang, to ...
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