Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John says the bones that former president John Mahama spoke about when he made reference to the bad economic situation the country had been grinded into powder and used to prepare Tuo Zaafi. According to him, that is what accounts for […]
Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has rubbished media reports about a directive by government to some eight (8) Chief Executive Officers of some state owned agencies to leave office by March 2019. According to him, government has not taken any such decision and that news to that effect should be treated as mere rumour. […]
The Director of Special Duties at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu has revealed that the Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John has not received any official communication from government directing him to leave office. News of the purported termination of the appointment of some eight (8) Chief […]
Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie otherwise known as Sir John says contrary to assertions and claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the Christmas is dry as a result of hardship in the country, this years’ ex-mas is the best ever to be celebrated by Ghanaians in long […]
Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadjo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John is asking former president John Dramani Mahama to tell him what he left at the Jubilee House that is making him so anxious to want to return for it, so that he (Sir John) will deliver it to him. ‘’Whatever […]
The Governments of Ghana and Ecuador have signed an agreement to cooperate on environmental protection, with a focus and emphasis on forestry development. The cooperation between the two countries will be centred on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). REDD+ is a global framework through which developing countries are rewarded financially for any […]
The Joint Military-Police taskforce against illegal chainsaw operations have retrieved a mind boggling 15 thousand pieces of processed wood and 118 chainsaw machines from some 37 illegal chainsaw operators in the Sehwi-Wiawso and Juaboso areas of the Western region. These came to light when the Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Mr. Kwadwo Owusu […]
The Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, Mr Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, has proposed to the government to sanction a shoot-to-kill system to ward off illegal chainsaw operators from degrading the forests. He said such a decision could also help protect members of the joint military-police forestry task force from attacks, especially in the Sefwi Wiaso […]
Chief Executive Office of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie (ESQ) will on the 30th of September 2018, receive a prestigious award from his kinsmen at Wonoo in the Ashanti Region. The Ahwiaa Wood Carvers Association is impressed with his enormous contribution and performance in the area of tourism promotion and the overall development and […]
Some 200 excavators have been uncovered at mining sites in the central region alone, by the inter-ministerial committee on illegal mining. The committee which is on a mission to sanitize the mining sector says the ongoing vetting of licenses of small scale miners is aimed at having a grasp of the actual situation in the […]
Government has taken the fight against illegal mining in the country to another level through the use of high technological penetration
