Take over Gold Fields' Tarkwa mine - NEIP CEO tells government

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  • A 19 hours ago

    That is exactly what would be done otherwise, our leaders should be considered as nincompoops and lunatics!

  • Sonko 15 hours ago

    WE ARE TAKING BACK OUR GIFT GIVEN TO US BY GOD. FOR DECADES, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE HAVE BENEFITTED FROM THAT GOLD MINE

  • Myself 13 hours ago

    I saw the TnA stadium on my last visit to Tarkwa and I was told it was build by Goldfields at $15 million.Lets stop giving a dog a bad name in other to hang it.Tell your government to render an account on the all the royalti ...
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  • Take back what? 15 hours ago

    You wouldn't be talking like this if you knew the condition of that mine when it was state owned until it became what it is currently. If you care to know, it was ran down by the same Ghanaians.

  • Prudhomme - Ghanaians are unintelligent and liars 18 hours ago

    These young Ghanaians obviously don't know the history of the country.

    All goldmines used to be managed by the State Gold Mining Corporation (SGMC), the most corrupt government agency Ghana has ever had.

    Under the SGMC ...
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  • Me 16 hours ago

    They should give them to Ghanaian mining private companies

  • Kwa 13 hours ago

    Only few have the capacity to run the mine because it's capital intensive.How many can raise $1 billion to run the Tarkwa mine as Goldfields is proposing for the next three years.So for now we can go for partnership between G ...
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  • Another idiot talking nonsense 16 hours ago

    Ghana does not a single company with experience in operating a mine. It has several companies with experience in mining contracting. They are two very different skills. We need to learn to walk before we run. For 60 years we ...
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  • Agbeli Kumordi 16 hours ago

    If the government of Ghana can't take over the Tarkwa Gold field we the citizens of Ghana shall take over the mine the same way south Africans marching with the sticks and machette we shall march on to Tarkwa

  • Boneshaker 13 hours ago

    Empty barrel

  • Agbeli Kumordi 3 hours ago

    You're mentality sick
    I can provide you with a taxi to Korle Bu

  • HE IS RIGHT 14 hours ago

    Ghana politicians, don't be cowards!
    What these bastards did is unpardonable.
    Do the same to them!

  • Re Golden stool 14 hours ago

    All mining rights where expired must be taken over by government as these foreign companies exploit Ghanaians without developing the resource fringed communities

  • Prof Azar 12 hours ago

    I dare mahama to renew the lease to goldfields....is complete nonsense .....goldfields should leave after the term ends period.....hell will break loose if the lease is renewed

  • Fanta 11 hours ago

    You can't do foko

  • Osonoba 5 hours ago

    Some chiefs and queens in Tarkwa area has been bribed to defend the lease extension of gold fields, please Mr President listen to the majority shouting DON'T RENEW THE LEASE.

  • Kofi Atta 25 minutes ago

    Massa do your job.
    How many jobs are you creating?
    Collecting money for nothing

  • Andoh 19 minutes ago

    We can't even fix Accra flooding and wants to run all mines
    Flooring
    Importing tomatoes onions
    Na wo cause am
    CEO get us innovative ideas to stop flooding and create jobs

  • Andoh 13 minutes ago

    World Bank loan 500 million Dollars
    President ask for investors on UK
    Ghanaian is capable why begging
    Need the name of a mine from exploration to marketing established by us ?