The purest female mining gem in Ghana deserves honour and recognition beyond measure.
Tragically speaking, this seems to be the exact irony in the story of Angela List, the CEO and brain behind Nguvu Mining Limited, a group of mining companies operating in Ghana and several other countries in West Africa.
Angela List has been on the target list of somebody who uses certain media outlets to endlessly churn out libelous publications, slanderous accusations and outlandish allegations against her person and business interests.
How that innocent and innocuous young lady has survived the tempestuous years of atrocity, animosity, hostility and mendacity simply boggles the mind. Indeed, it has only been by divine grace.
The latest utterly mendacious publication announced her arrest. On that day in question, she was nowhere near any police station in Ghana, let alone arrested or questioned by any police officer. She was actually in her office, minding her chain of businesses.
Although the offending media houses have since apologised for their palpable professional sins, the apology does not at all obscure the underlying wickedness in those publications, wickedness in its most naked nastiness.
The basics of journalism teach us that every story has two or more sides. But that story of her arrest, and many similar others, unscrupulously peddled only one side, viciously concocted to destroy the CEO who has built her companies from the scratch into multinational entities spanning seven countries and three continents.
Recently, editors of the leading media houses in Ghana had the opportunity to hear the side of Angela List who, emotionally but convincingly, set the record straight.
The production figures by Nguvu Mining Limited do not jump off the pages. But they are significant enough to bolster the economy, and most importantly, guarantee job opportunities for more than 3,000 Ghanaians. This staggering employment record by Nguvu Mining Limited alone should attract commendation, and not condemnation.
Angela List is women’s empowerment personified, audacious vision epitomised, and entrepreneurial spirit exemplified.
As 2nd Vice President of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, and the first Ghanaian to win the 2025 Global Power Female Award in the US, Angela List deserves all the plaudits for her trail blazing accomplishments and paradigm shifting leadership.
In the name of demonstrably inspiring, and tangibly supporting Ghanaian businesses to grow and flourish, the state, and, indeed all well-meaning Ghanaians, must rally behind Angela List to dust herself off, and pick herself up from the pickle of bad press, vicious propaganda, and reputational damage.
Enough is enough.
