Tag: environmental degradation

Minerals Commission Board Chairman urges traditional leaders to help shape Ghana’s new mining policy.

His Eminence Cardinal Peter Kojo Appiah Turkson, the Ghanaian-born Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Social Sciences at the Vatican, has stirred the conscience of the nation, calling ...

A joint anti-galamsey operation by the Mankranso District Police Command and the Ahafo Ano South West District Assembly on Monday, has resulted in the seizure of weapons and heavy machinery ...

In what appears to be a major step towards dismantling the networks behind Ghana’s destructive illegal mining industry, popularly known as galamsey, Minister of Defence Dr. Edward Omane Boamah has ...

Renowned Legal Practitioner Osagyefo Mawuse Oliver Barker-Vormawor has strongly criticised Ghana’s judiciary and anti-corruption institutions, following the controversial release and subsequent reversal of an order to free excavators impounded from ...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has reaffirmed the NDC administration’s commitment to clamp down on the activities of illegal mining and declared that no ...

Mr President, after all is said and done you have a legacy to build, and a legacy to be proud of and the CEO of the Minerals Commission Martin Kwaku ...

The situation demands not just political will but a swift, decisive, and sustained approach to rescue the country from environmental and economic devastation

NPP loyalist Patrick Kwarteng Sarpong has called on Defence Minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah to take decisive action against illegal mining, commonly known as galamsey.  Sarpong, in a strongly worded ...

Ing. Dr. Kenneth Ashigbey, Convenor of the Media Coalition Against Galamsey, has strongly criticized the government’s approach to the escalating galamsey (illegal mining) crisis. His concerns followed a shocking revelation ...