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Container shops, sand and chippings traders and concrete-mixer rentals have reappeared inside the 90-metre reservation of the Pokuase-Nsawam Highway at Dobro in the Eastern Region, despite an earlier demolition exercise.
Four people, including two unit committee members, have been arrested after land they allegedly leased to illegal miners contributed to the collapse of the River Kukubu bridge at Abesua in the Ashanti Region.
Traditional rulers from communities between Nsawam and Suhum in Ghana's Eastern Region have formed a common front against what they call the forceful acquisition of their ancestral lands by developer Koans Building Solutions.
Accra Mayor Michael Kpakpo Allotey says the Kofikrom-Avenor housing project has been put on hold because some occupants have begun asserting ownership of the land, complicating a NADMO registration exercise.
More than 200 farmers at Akyem Asene near Oda say their cocoa, food crop and oil palm farms were destroyed eight months ago for the Accra-Kumasi expressway without compensation, and that some destroyed farms have still not been measured.
Ghana's Rent Commission has warned the University of Ghana to suspend a proposed 26% increase in hostel fees or face possible legal action, saying it is seeking advice from the Attorney-General on an injunction.
Ghana’s Environmental Protection Authority has ordered Empire Cement Ghana Limited to submit a relocation plan for its grinding and bagging plant at the Densu Delta Ramsar Site within 30 days, saying a September closure notice remains in force.
Ghana's Lands Commission says regulations to operationalise the Land Act, 2020 (Act 1036) have reached an advanced stage and are before Parliament, alongside a push to open 36 district offices.
The Lands Commission plans to invest GH¢1.8 billion in a five-year land administration reform programme financed mainly from its own revenue, with land searches already cut from about a month to seven working days.