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.

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Articles by Kofi Asante

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We’ll Ease Business Registration Processes

Government is set to improve the regulatory framework of registering businesses in the country to allow the private...

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Ghana’s Unbanked Population Good For New Banks- Prof. K. Botchwey

Despite calls to the Bank of Ghana(BoG) to introduce measures that will reduce the number of banks in the country,...

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Businesses Still Reel Under High Cost of Utility, Taxes – AGI Report

High cost of utility still remains one of the major challenges confronting businesses in Ghana. This is according to...

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New Business Dev’t Ministry To Create 20 Big Companies In 4 Years

The Minister Nominee for Business Development, Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, has announced an ambitious plan to create twenty...

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Agriculture Sector Has Key To Unlock Wealth – Kosmos Energy

Mr. Joe Mensah, Country Manager and Vice President of Kosmos Energy, has stated that the agriculture sector has the key...

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1,300 Cartons of Unwholesome Tilapia Destroyed At Kpone

Large quantities of unwholesome tilapia were yesterday destroyed at the Kpone dumping site in Tema. The 1,300 cartons...

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Fourty-Year Development Plan Risks Violation

The Minister designate for Planning, Professor Gyan-Baffuor, says the 40-year development plan prepared by the National...

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Cedi Seen Wobbling In First Quarter

The cedi is expected to continue to wobble in the first quarter of the year as demand pressure increases, although...

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Ghana To Foster Stronger Ties With China – Finance Minister

The Minister of Finance has hinted of the new government’s commitment, to develop better relationship with the...

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Security Systems For Your Home

Choosing the right security system for your home is serious business. There is a lot that goes into choosing the right...

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Tullow Bags $1.3bn

Tullow Oil plc (Tullow), the independent oil and gas exploration and production group, has bagged a full-year revenue...

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Scale Up Effort To Promote Bamboo and Rattan Production

Ghana has been asked to scale up the effort to increase bamboo and rattan production in the country to serve as...

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Access Bank Is Most Influential Bank On Social Media

For the second consecutive year, Access Bank Ghana has emerged as the most influential bank on social media in Ghana...

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Kufuor FPSO Ready To Set Sail To Cape 3 Points – Eni

Eni announces that the naming ceremony of the “John Agyekum Kufuor” floating production, storage and offloading...

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Ghana To Learn From Best Practices In Job Creation

Ghana would learn from the best practices in Kenya, India, and other partners, to complement its strategies for giving...

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Ghana Risks IMF Sanction Over ‘GHS7bn Loophole’

Ghana risks being sanctioned by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for failing to disclose full financial data to...

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COCOBOD Gets New CEO

Jospeh Boahen Aidoo, a former Western Regional Minister under the previous Kufuor administration, has been appointed by...

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MTN Launches “M’AHITI” Promotion

MTN Ghana has launched another mega promotion dubbed “M’ahiti” Promotion. For 100 days, MTN Prepaid Customers...

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AGI To Partner Gov’t In 60th Anniversary Celebration

Mr. Akwaboah disclosed that efforts have been put in place to attract foreign participation. As part of Ghana’s 60th...

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Government To Realign Expenditure To Target Job Creation

Finance Minister, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta says the government will realign public expenditure to suit the one district, one...