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By Kasim Sumaina The federal government on Friday pledged to put plans in place to resuscitate the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON) for sustainable commercial operations. The Minister of State Mines and Steel Development Dr Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah revealed this at the Government House in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, during his two-day working visit to the State Ogah, in statement in Abuja by the Ministry’s Director of Press, Mrs. Etore Thomas, stated that the purpose of the visit was to among...

705 The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Dr Kwaku Afriyie says the government will continue to burn excavators being used for illegal mining when soldiers seize them. To him, burning the machines is the best alternative to fighting illegal surface mining rather than seizing them. In a television interview with Citi TV on the programme Face to Face, Dr Afriyie, who is also the Member of Parliament for Sefwi Wiawso in the Western North Region said those who ...

65 national security galamseyers arrested in Atewa forest LISTEN 4 HOURS AGO Some 19 persons claiming to be national security operatives have been arrested in the Atewa forest in the Eastern Region mining gold. The camouflaged suspects invaded the reserve in Akyem-Akateng with a Toyota Land Cruiser under the guise of embarking on an operation to clamp down on illegal small-scale miners (galamseyers) on the dawn of Tuesday, 4 May 2021. Despite being armed, locals in the area and forest guards...

705 Pressure group OccupyGhana has faulted government’s approach to torch equipment seized at illegal mining sites, saying the method is a brazen illegality that should cease forthwith. Again, the group says the failure of the security agencies to bring persons arrested for indulging in illegal mining (galamsey) to face the law undermines the whole exercise of fighting the menace. Describing government’s attempts to fight galamsey as “epileptic and faltering”, OccupyGhana in a statement...

  Pressure group OccupyGhana has faulted government’s approach to torch equipment seized at illegal mining sites, saying the method is a brazen illegality that should cease forthwith. Again, the group says the failure of the security agencies to bring persons arrested for indulging in illegal mining (galamsey) to face the law undermines the whole exercise of fighting the menace. Describing government’s attempts to fight galamsey as “epileptic and faltering”, OccupyGhana in a statement ...

The pressure group, OccupyGhana has expressed utter disgust over the activities of illegal miners in the country popularly known as galamsey.

Ghana-Press-Review May 05, 2021 to 10:14 158 APA – Accra (Ghana) The partnership between the Ministry of Works and Housing and the private sector to develop the Kumasi Affordable Housing Project and the commissioning of the office for the Coordinated Mechanism on the safety of Journalists by the government are some of the leading stories in the Ghanaian press on Wednesday The Graphic reports th...

Your epileptic, faltering galamsey fight died the day Aisha Huang was left off the hook – OccupyGhana to Akufo-Addo By Reporter Listen to article Civil society group OccupyGhana has said the fight against illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) by the Akufo-Addo government was dead on arrival. The group said it died the day Chinese ‘galamsey queen’ Aisha Huang was let off the hook by the state after her arrest. In a statement, OccupyGhana said President Akufo-Addos “epileptic and falter...

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