Kofi Asante

Kofi Asante is a business and economics reporter based in Kumasi. He covers trade, finance, entrepreneurship, and economic development across the Ashanti Region and greater Ghana. A former analyst at the Bank of Ghana, Kofi holds an MBA from KNUST and brings data-driven reporting to stories about markets, commodities, and Ghana's growing tech sector.

4760 Articles Joined March 2026

Articles by Kofi Asante

Business

MoneyGram and Capital Bank Announce Partnership In Ghana

MoneyGram and Capital Bank, announced today the launch of MoneyGram’s services across Capital’s Bank network in...

Business

GRA Locks Up Packplus For Owing Over GHc2.6 Million

The Special Revenue mobilization taskforce of the Ghana Revenue Authority on Wednesday February 15, locked up PackPlus,...

Business

UK To Push For Free Trade Deal With Ghana

The Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson has stated that bilateral trade relations with Ghana will...

Business

UK Reverses Decision To Cut Aid To Ghana

UK’S foreign secretary, Boris Johnson has assured that the United Kingdom will maintain its £130m annual aid package...

Business

Ghanaian Banks Face High Asset Risks, Despite Solid Capital Buffers

High asset risks pose the biggest challenges for banks in Ghana, says Moody's Investors Service in a report published...

Business

Transit Trade Figures Pick Up

Confidence in Ghana’s economy by its landlocked neighbours of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, coupled with improved...

Business

NLC Boss Dismisses Any Wrong Doing In Termination of Staff Employment

The Executive Secretary of the National Labour Commission (NLC), Lawyer Charles Adongo Bawa Duah, has for the first...

Business

We’ll Prosecute Defaulting Taxpayers In Mining Sector – GRA

Suppliers of mining equipment in Ghana who default in filing tax returns risk prosecution if they fail to reconcile...

Business

Heritage Fund Debate Builds Up

The decision by Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration to finance its flagship free Senior High School policy with...

Business

Damning Report On Newmont Ahafo Mine Operation

A research study by the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and two other institutions shows that the operation of the...

Business

Ghanaian Exporters Urged To Put Premium On Packaging

Ghanaian exporters have been asked to put a premium on the packaging of their products to boost attraction and ensure...

Business

Corruption Has Taken Ghana To the Dark Ages

Mr Kenneth Kwamina Thompson, the Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance, has observed that the widespread corruption...

Business

Norfund’s Arise Acquires 27.7% of CAL Bank

CAL Bank has assured that an acquisition of 27.7 percent stake in the bank by Arise Investment will further grow the...

Business

GRA Closes Down Packplus Limited For Owing GHc2.6m

Coordinator of Task Force of the GRA, Henry Sam addressing the press after closing down Packplus The Special Revenue...

Business

Nip Idea To Set Up Digital Migration Company; Collect Revenue, In the Bud – Nduom Advises Gov’t

Astute businessman Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom has advised government to nip the idea to set up a digital migration company...

Business

No Fuel Shortage In Two Weeks

The National Petroleum Authority(NPA) has assured that there is enough fuel in the country to meet domestic demand. The...

Business

Okada Business Booms In Adeiso

Despite efforts by the police in the Upper West Akyem District, Adeiso to clamp down on Okada Business, it is obvious...

Business

Inflation Rate Drops To 13.3%

The inflation rate for January 2017 is 13.3 per cent, a drop from the 15.4 percent recorded in December 2016,...

Business

Twenty-Five Banks Flout Law

Only five banks out the 30 have transferred their records to the Public Records and Archives Administration (PRAAD) as...

Business

Springfield Group Steps Into Upstream Oil Exploration

A wholly owned Ghanaian oil and gas company, the Springfield Group, has taken a giant step to explore for oil in the...