APEX, a civil society organization advocating for national development, has issued a stern call to Ghanaian authorities to intensify efforts in clamping down on illegal foreign miners, particularly Chinese nationals who have been implicated in destructive galamsey (illegal mining) operations across the country.
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President John Dramani Mahama through the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development has nominated Richard Ofori-Agyemang Boadi as the new Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) for the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), signaling a new chapter for a city grappling with infrastructural decay, transport chaos, and sanitation woes.
Alarming incident erupted at Adventist Senior High School in Bantama, Ashanti Region on a fateful Friday morning in April 2025 after a student fired a gun on campus, leaving two students injured , sparking nationwide concerns over rising brutality and access to firearms among Ghana’s youth.
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is leading the race for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2028 presidential flagbearer position, according to a fresh Global InfoAnalytics poll. The survey places him ahead of other contenders, solidifying his status as the party’s frontrunner for the next leadership contest.
Undoubtedly, Ghana’s flourishing Mobile Money transaction showcased astonishing growth in early 2025, with mobile money transactions achieving six hundred forty-nine billion two hundred million cedis (GH¢649.2 billion ) for January and February combined – representing a sixty-four point sixty-eight percent(64.68% )
surge from the three hundred ninety-four billion two hundred million cedis (GH¢394.2 billion ) total of the same period last year.
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The last week fire outbreak which swept through Adum PZ and Blue Light in Kumasi, Ghana has affected traders as multiple shops and goods valued in millions of Ghana cedis were burnt. Dr. Frank Amoakohene, the Ashanti Regional Minister announced that in the past 24 hours, GHC600,000 had been raised to cater for the affected.
Every few months, the Ghanaian public is assured of a tough, no-nonsense crackdown on illegal gold mining, locally known as galamsey. Headlines scream victory as machines are seized and arrests are made. Yet, one inconvenient truth haunts these promises: galamsey thrives deeper, more lucrative, and more destructive than ever before — largely under the shadow of China’s influence and the deep, rotting roots of political compromise that began as far back as the Rawlings era.