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  By;brightwebtv/nana asare The Counter Intelligent Unit (CIU) at the Office Of The President Annex has arrested 10 Chinese nationals for engaging in illegal mining (galamsey) in parts of the Kwahu enclave. They were arrested on Tuesday together with two Ghanaian accomplices. The team impounded seven excavators and retrieved weapons …

    by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Two students have died in a galamsey pit at Akyem Asiakwa in Abuakwa South Municipality in the Eastern region. The two victims were a final year student of St Stephen’s Senior High Technical School (STEPSS) in Asiakwa and a continuing student of Begoro Presbyterian Senior …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Two persons have reportedly died in a galamsey pit collapse in the Ashanti region while they were in the process of mining. The incident is said to have occurred at Wrowroso in the Amansie Central District. The deceased are both second-year Junior High School (JHS) pupils. …

  River Oda polluted About 140,000 people are being deprived of safe potable water in Obuasi Municipality and its surroundings because of the menace of illegal small-scale mining, galamsey. The Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR), Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah bemoaned this and said galamsey activities on river Oda …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Prof. Frimpong Boateng was the chairman of the Interministerial C’ttee against illegal mining Former Lands and Natural Resources Minister Inusah Fuseini has described the inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) under the first tenure of the Akufo-Addo administration as a failure. According to him, due to …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Asante monarch Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has urged new Lands and Natural Resources Minister Samuel Abu Jinapor to fight illegal small-scale mining to protect the environment. The Asantehene gave the charge when Mr Jinapor paid a courtesy call on him at …

  By:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah General News Operations Vanguard of the Ghana Police Service destroyed some 59 Changfang motors. The Operation Vanguard team of the Ghana Police Service has destroyed some 59 Changfang motors.  The Western Region Force, commanded by Superintendent of Police William Kwofie Jabialu, destroyed the machines, as part …

  By:brightwebtv.com nana Asare Barimah File photo: ‘Galamsey’ pit Three Junior High School (JHS) pupils at Banaso in the Aowin Municipality have drowned in abandoned illegal mining pit locally known as galamsey pit. The deceased are Mary Affum, 16, Pricilla Benewaa, 15, and Linda Manu, 15. Enchi District Police Commander, Superintendent of …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah A file photo   Fourteen(14) persons are in the grips of the Ashanti Regional Police Command for chasing some illegal miners from a mining site at Ntobroso in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti region, resulting in the death of one. The group, who had …

By:brightwebtv.com/Nana asare barimah The joint military and police taskforce against illegal mining are expected to withdraw from all their bases across the country starting Friday. JoyNews’ Erastus Donkor Asare, who reported this, said the directive is coming from “the corridors of power.” In particular, reference was made to the Chief …