Children in some galamsey sites in the Western Region have been engaging in labour, drugs, prostitution and encountering mercury to put body and soul together. A short documentary carried out ...
En Huang, aka Aisha Huang, a 'galamsey' kingpin, has been sentenced to four years, six months imprisonment by an Accra High Court on Monday.
Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II, the Paramount Chief of Dormaa Traditional Area, says he will destool any chief who is found to have “knowingly or unknowingly” allowed illegal-mining activities, otherwise ...
Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II, the Dormaahene, has summoned chiefs under his paramountcy to sign an undertaking for destoolment should they be found promoting illegal mining activities, otherwise known and ...
A Ghanaian based in America, Kwaku Gyebi of the House of Prayer Evangelistic Ministry, at Twifo-Phase, has been arrested by the Police for allegedly engaging in illegal mining at Perwudie, ...
Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby, a diplomat and former Chief Executive Officer of the Volta River Authority (VRA) says the State must focus on arresting wealthy and influential individuals, who finance the ...
Dr. Albert Kobbina Mensah, Soil Research Officer at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has stated that the military’s approach to dealing with the galamsey menace has been ...
The Office of the Special Prosecutor has given the assurance that it will prosecute those found culpable of corruption and corruption-related offences in the mining sector.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has demanded an immediate bipartisan enquiry into recent leaked reports on illegal mining (Galamsey) by Chairman of the defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining.
Dr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Minority Leader has called for a probe into the report of the defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining.
