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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Economic Challenges Threat To Telecoms Industry

The current macro-economic challenges in the country are posing serious threats to the sustainability of the telecom...

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ECG Recovers GHC450,000 From Illegal Connections In Eastern Region

The Eastern Regional branch of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has retrieved over GHC 450.000.00 from illegal...

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Ogilvy and Mather Crowned Best Advertising Agency For 2016

Advertising Agency Ogilvy and Mather has emerged the Best Advertising Agency for the year 2016 after picking two of the...

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Election Spending and Its Effect On the Business Community

play videoGhana's economy has seen a decline in investments in 2016 mainly due to uncertainty with the polls What's the...

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Ghana To Host African Investments and Business Conference

The Oxford Business Group (OBG) is organising an African Investment and Business forum from 3rd to 5th December at the...

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Ghana Post To Venture Into Banking In 2017

Ghana Post Company Limited has decided to venture into banking as part of its move to expand its frontiers. According...

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Airport Company Gets $180million Tax Relief For New Projects

The Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) has been granted tax relief of US$180 million for new construction works...

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EXIM Bank Will Provide Soft Loans For SMEs

As Ghana prepares to launch the Ghana EXIM Bank next week, the Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Dr. Barfour Osei...

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ECG Is Efficient – ECG Boss

Volta Regional Manager of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Ing. Joseph Forson has debunked claims by government...

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SMS Declines As Mobile Data Use Doubles

A 15-month report on short message service (SMS) and mobile data use in the country indicates SMS use declined...

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Mayor of Columbus Lauds Zoomlion Sanitation Crusade

The Mayor of the City of Columbus, Ohio in the United States of America has praised Ghana’s leading waste management...

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Diamond Cement To Sack 500 Workers End of This Month

About 500 workers of Diamond Cement Ghana Limited are to be laid off by the end of this month in a bid by the...

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Ghana And ADB Sign $ 83 Million Loan Agreement

The loan would be used for the Pokuase Interchange Project Ghana and the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday...

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Mo Ibrahim Foundation Unveils New Online Data Portal

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation launched the new IIAG Data Portal, which provides unprecedented access to 15 years of data,...

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Local Cement Producers Operations Stifled By Competition

Local cement producers in the country have in the past months complained bitterly to government over unfair competition...

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Ghana To Do Palm Oil Business Without Causing Deforestation

Ghana, together with six other African countries, has agreed in a declaration signed on Wednesday to protect their...

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Tema Port Expansion To Save $400m In Sea Freight Charges

President John Dramani Mahama has cut the sod for work to begin on the Tema Port expansion work. This ambitious project...

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Introduce More Private Sector Reforms

A private sector development specialist at the World Bank, Mr Frederic Meunier, has urged the government to introduce...

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Terkper Hopes For Drop In Policy Rate

The Finance Minister, Mr Seth Terkper, expects the stability in the fiscal side of the economy to provide comfort to...

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Tema Port Expansion Project Begins

President John Dramani Mahama cut the sod for the commencement of the $1.5 billion Tema Port Expansion Project on...