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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Samsung To Increase Competition In Africa With New Showroom

The largest and most premium Samsung showroom in Africa has opened in Accra to display the widest range of Samsung...

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ADB Shares Record Significant Appreciation On Ghana Stock Exchange

Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has started reaping some of the benefits that come with listing on the Ghana Stock...

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Staff At VIASAT 1 To Be Retained By New Owners

Econet Media, new owners of Labone-based Viasat 1 Television (owned by Modern Times Group) will retain all existing...

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GSE-Composite Index Makes Gains

Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) dropped marginally by 30 Basis Point to 15.5 per cent in November due to lower charges...

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More Banks Now Offer Instant Pay

About 18 of the country’s banks are now able to offer the Instant Pay (GIP) service to their customers, more than...

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Passage of Insolvency Bill Into Law Top Priority

The Ghana Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors (GARIA) says it will continue its advocacy to have a new...

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GCB Opens 161st Branch At Saboba

Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) has opened a new branch at Saboba to support and facilitate business activities in the...

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ADB Attributes Rise In Share Price To Investor Confidence

The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has attributed the significant performance of the bank’s share price to...

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Ken Ofori-Atta Likely To Be Appointed Finance Minister

Joy business is reliably informed that the co-founder of Databank Financial Services, Ken Ofori-Atta is expected to be...

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First Gas To Flow From WAGL Project In July 2017 – Project Director

Barring any last minutes hitches, Ghana would receive its first gas from the West Africa Gas Ltd. (WAGL) LNG terminal...

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KNUST Chart A New Course To Address Graduate Unemployment

The sheer number of graduate unemployment year in year out and the flaring disconnect between industry and academia has...

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Over 11,000 People Benefit From NBSSI In Ashanti Region

The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has said over 11,000 micro and small scale businesses and...

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Renegotiating of IMF Deal Needless – Economist

An economist at the University of Ghana Business School, Dr. Lord Mensah, has said calls on the incoming Nana...

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Vodafone X Gives Customers EXtra This Christmas

Telecommunications pacesetter, Vodafone Ghana is set to delight Vodafone X customers this Christmas with lots of...

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Ghana To Rake In $2.3bn Annually From Sankofa Gas Project

New figures released by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has projected that the Sankofa Gye Nyame Oil and...

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18 Banks Now Offer Instant Pay

About 18 of banks in Ghana are now able to offer the Instant Pay (GIP) service to their customers, which is double the...

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TOR Increases Daily Crude Production By 20,000 Barrels

The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is set to increase its daily production capacity following a successful test run of the...

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Policymakers Urged To Review Farmers’ Access To Seeds, Fertilizer

A new study into the access to quality inputs by Ghanaian farmers has called on policy makers to re-evaluate the...

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Brand Ghana CEO Says Ghana Must Intensify Branding Efforts

Mrs Helen Annan, the Chief Executive Officer of Brand Ghana, has underscored the need for the nation to intensify its...

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BoG Moves To Improve Communication With Public

The Bank of Ghana would on Friday, December 23, launch a Contact Centre, as part of efforts by the Bank to improve...