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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Ghana To Become Aviation Hub — Chief of Staff

Government has affirmed its commitment to make Ghana an aviation hub in the subregion. It is for this reason the...

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Mine Workers Aggrieved Over Unfair Treament

Local mine workers have expressed concern over what they have described as precarious employment contract arrangements...

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COCOBOD Warns Staff Against Theft

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has asked some workers who continuously steal to desist from the practice. It also...

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Revamp Obuasi Mine To Create Jobs

Prince William Ankrah, General Secretary of the Ghana Mineworker’s Union, has called on government to, as a matter of...

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Economic Indices Stifle Banking Industry

Dzifa Amegashie, Head of Investor Relations at CAL Bank, has indicated that a lot of economic trends and indices, which...

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Ghana’s Automated Birth Registration Recognized

The automation of Ghana’s birth registration process, a programme spearheaded by the Births and Deaths Registry,...

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Mining Companies Sack Employees; Re-Engage Them As Casuals

Most mining companies operating in Ghana have engaged employees on short-term fixed contracts after sacking them in...

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New Trend of Cement Retail Emerges In Kumasi

Some businesses are devising more ingenious ways to survive the extreme competition they face in the market, especially...

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Ghana and Denmark Sign €7.84m Agreement

Ghana has signed a 7.84 million Euros mixed credit facility agreement with the Nordea Bank of Denmark for the...

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NPP To Establish Aluminium Industry

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured Ghanaians...

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I’ll Establish Aluminium Industry In Ghana – Akufo-Addo

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured Ghanaians that...

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Finatrade Faces Imminent Liquidation

A commodity trading company, Finatrade, is said to have begun series of job cuts in anticipation of an eventual...

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BoG Sells GH¢93.3bn Worth of Bills To Mop Up Excess Liquidity

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has doubled up on its open market operations (OMO) over the last 10 months, in an attempt to...

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Ghana Export Import Bank Launched In Accra

The Ghana Export Import Bank (Ghana EXIM) was yesterday launched in Accra to provide long term and patient capital,...

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Societe Generale Ghana Holds Chinese Desk Business Banquet

Societe Generale Ghana organised a Business Banquet for the Bank’s Chinese clients at the Tang Palace Hotel. The...

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Gov’t Halts Further Processing of IPPs

Government has directed the Ministry of Power to halt the processing of application for Independent Power Plants in the...

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BoG Introduces Business Rules and Micro-Finance Logo To Sanitize the Industry

The Central Bank of Ghana has introduced a new set of business regulations and corresponding sanctions to effectively...

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Dollar Auctioning Could Hurt Cedi – Economist

An economist, Dr. Lord Mensah, has said the auctioning by the central bank of part of the US$1.8 billion cocoa...

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Ghana EximBank Takes Off

Export development finance institution, EximBank Ghana, has been launched to bolster government’s quest for an...

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Informal Miners Quit AngloGold’s Concessions

All informal miners have been successfully moved from the previously occupied areas of the AngloGold Ashanti Ghana’s...