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Special Prosecutor declares Charles Bissue wanted
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has declared former Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles Bissue, wanted.This comes after...
Asantehene leads tree planting in Kumasi as part of Green Ghana Day initiative
Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, on Friday, joined the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, to plant trees to mark this year’s Green...
Special Prosecutor secures court order to arrest Charles Bissue
The Office of the Special Prosecutor has secured an order from the court to arrest former Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining...
Charles Bissue asks court to stop OSP from investigating him again
A former Presidential staffer, Charles Bissue, has gone to the High Court to stop the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) from investigating him...
Newmont pays over GHS 800 million as Q1 taxes to Gov’t of Ghana
Newmont Africa has announced that in the first quarter of 2023, its Ghana operations (Ahafo South and Akyem mines) paid a total of GHS...
Hearing of Charles Bissue’s suit against Special Prosecutor deferred
The High Court has postponed its hearing of an injunction application brought by Charles Bissue, a former Presidential Staffer and one-time Secretary of the...
NDC primaries: Charles Owusu endorses Adentan MP Adamu Ramadan
Former Head of the Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu, is very interested in the parliamentary primaries of the National Democratic Congress...
Charles Owusu’s lawyer responds to Prof Frimpong-Boateng’s allegations
Lawyer for former Head of the Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu, has officially responded to allegations made by former Minister of...
Inside the Accra Zoo: A look at the diet of lions [watch]
Nestled in the Achimota Forest in Accra is the Accra Zoo, a public facility operated by the Forestry Commission, which houses a variety of...
Police probe assault on game rangers in Kyebi
Police in the Eastern region have launched an investigation into the assault on two Kyebi Forestry Division game rangers.The two managers, Yaw Sakyi and...
Akonta Mining: Abu Jinapor replies Mahama
Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has taken a swipe at former President John Mahama over his comments that President Nana...
Akonta mining: Mahama’s comment vague and irrelevant – Deputy Information Minister
Deputy Information Minister, Fatimatu Abubakar, has described as false some comments made by former President John Dramani Mahama against President Nana Akufo-Addo.This was after...
Akonta Mining not engage in illegal mining – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has asserted that Akonta Mining Company Limited is not involved in any illegal mining anywhere in Ghana currently.The President said this at...
OSP to announce outcome of Charles Bissue’s investigation
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has released a half-year report on its activities in 2022.According to the OSP, the release of the...
Charles Adu Boahen, Sir John’s estate, Airbus, ‘wealthy-but-unnamed businessman’ all under investigation – Special...
The Office of the Special Prosecutor says it is investigating no less than 132 suspected corruption and corruption-related offences which are at various levels...
Charles Bissue wants court to stop Special Prosecutor from investigating him
The former Secretary of the defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) wants the court to prevent the Office of the Special Prosecutor from...
We receive ¢500 a day – ‘Galamsey’ workers boast of being paid more than...
A group of illegal miners have expressed delight in the financial gains from their illegal mining activities.According to the miners, each of them receives...
Media Coalition Against Galamsey calls for Wontumi’s arrest
The Media Coalition Against Galamsey has called for the immediate arrest of the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), for his...
Why Kissi Agyebeng should recuse himself from ‘galamsey’ probe – Titus-Glover
Former Member of Parliament for Tema East Constituency, Titus Glover, has urged the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, to recuse himself from probing some public...
Be thorough and transparent in your probe – Ken Ashigbey to OSP
The Convener of the Media Coalition Against Illegal Mining says Ghanaians should support the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s investigation into alleged corruption in...
Galamsey: Special Prosecutor probes Charles Bissue, Wontumi, other govt officials
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) says it has commenced investigations into suspected corruption and corruption-related offences in respect of illegal small-scale mining.This...
Galamsey: Chiefs, DCEs, others to blame – Lands Minister
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has blamed chiefs, District Chief Executives, regional authorities and opinion leaders for the worsening...
WACAM leads public forum on responsible mining
A community based human rights and environmental mining NGO, WACAM, has led a public forum on responsible mining in Accra.The two-day forum on the...
GIJ 2022 homecoming in photos
The boring evenings of the North Dzorwulu campus of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) came alive last Friday when the Alumni trooped to...
Three Chinese illegal miners arrested at Enchi
Three Chinese illegal miners operating in the Tano Numeri Forest Reserve in the Aowin Municipality of the Western North Region have been arrested together...
List of alleged corruption cases Special Prosecutor is probing
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has furnished the public with cases which have engaged its attention so far.This forms part of the...
Green Street Project launched
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has inaugurated a committee to oversee to the planning and implementation of the Green...
Full ruling: Why High Court refused to keep Sir John’s assets frozen
On Tuesday, an Accra High Court dismissed a request by the Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng to grant him the mandate to freeze assets of...
Special Prosecutor to appeal High Court ruling against freezing of Sir John’s assets
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has served notice it will challenge the decision by the Accra High Court to prevent it from...
Special Prosecutor’s request to keep Sir John’s assets frozen dismissed
An Accra High Court has dismissed a request by the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyabeng, to extend his power to freeze assets of the late...
Why it is impossible for Land Ministry to provide data on state lands transferred...
Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor says due to the large volume of data on state lands transferred to private individuals...
UDS graduate ventures into mobile car washing after failing to secure job [Video]
The unemployment rate in the country seems to be influencing some of the youth to take up jobs they never thought would be how...
Freeze sale of Tamale state lands – Minority Leader to Akufo-Addo
Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu has called on President Akufo-Addo to instruct the Lands Minister to freeze the further sale of state lands in the...
Politicians are ‘raping’ Ghana financially – Prof Gyampo fumes
Professor Ransford Gyampo, an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, is of the opinion politicians are “raping” Ghana financially.His argument...
Green Ghana: Govt exceeds 20m seedling target – Lands Ministry
The Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, who doubles as the National Chairman of the 2022 Green Ghana Planning Committee, has...
Sir John’s Will: Special Prosecutor intimidating me – Charles Owusu
A former aide of the late Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as ‘Sir John’, is accusing the...
2022 Green Ghana Project: Otumfuo leads tree planting in Ashanti Region
Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, on Friday morning joined in the planting of trees in commemoration of the 2022 Green Ghana project.Also present...
Former aide to late Sir John ordained pastor [Video]
A former aide to the late Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Sir John, has been ordained as a man of God.Charles Owusu...
Special Prosecutor freezes all assets of Sir John
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has frozen all assets of the late Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie,...
Pressure group bares teeth at govt over Achimota Forest land
Pressure group OneGhana Movement has called for the immediate cessation of all processes intended to transfer portions of the State's interests in the Achimota...