Tag Archives: Galamseyer

The controversy surrounding the alleged illegal mining activities at President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s private residence in Kyebi in the Eastern Region, continues as former Environment Minister, Prof Frimpong-Boateng, has re-affirmed his claims despite a denial by the presidency and chiefs of Kyebi. Prof Frimpong-Boateng’s leaked report to the presidency …

An illegal small-scale miner by name Kwofie K has sent a warning to the government over the resolve of his mining crew to engage in wanton destruction of forest cover in search of gold. In a Facebook live video sighted by GhanaWeb, Kwofie dared the government to come after him …

The body of the assistant headteacher of Mpatasie D/A primary in the Amansie South District of the Ashanti Region, Akwasi Anane, has been found. The 47-year-old headteacher, who is reported to have gone to a galamsey site to work in the evening of Tuesday, 4 October 2022, could not be …

A young man captured in a video at a galamsey site in the Western Region has boasted about how medicinal the use of mercury can be for a person. In the video captured by one of Ghana’s foremost drone pilots and documentary producers, Edem Srem, the young man, popularly known …

The Bole Magistrate Court has sentenced a 19-year-old old illegal mining (galamsey) operator, Issahaku Aziz, to 18 months imprisonment. The sentence was handed to him by His Worship, Andrew Prince Cudjoe, for possession of a stolen unregistered Apsonic Aloba motorbike valued at GHS 4,800.00. The prosecutor in the case, Chief …