Articles by Kofi Asante
More Policy Attention Needed On Artisanal Mining – UNCTAD
Artisanal and small-scale mining offers opportunities to generate jobs, reduce poverty, and provide livelihoods, but...
Vodafone Introduces Mobile Data Packages
In a move that should essentially take customer experience to the next level, Vodafone Ghana has announced that it is...
NDC Piles Up More Loans For Ghanaians
The Mahama-led National Democratic Congress government appears to be taking its insatiable appetite for loans that are...
Parliament Approves $83.6m Loan For Pokuase-APC Junction Road Expansion
Parliament has approved $83.6 million loan for the expansion of the Pokuase-APC Junction road in Accra to ease traffic...
Economist Kicks Against 80% Sale of TOR Asset
An Economist, Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah, has kicked against the granting of a waiver of import duties, import VAT and...
Cocobod Rejects Claims of Insufficient Funds To Purchase Cocoa
COCOBOD has rejected claims of not releasing sufficient funds to purchase cocoa for the 2016/2017 crop season. It...
GCB Evolves Three Customer Friendly Policies In Three Months
GCB Bank Limited (GCB) has implemented three major customer centered policies between August and September this year....
Economy Will Emerge Stronger After Elections
The Chief Executive of Stanbic Bank Ghana, Alhassan Andani, has assured foreign investors that the Ghanaian economy...
Nduom Opens Rejuvenated Rice Mill In Worawora, Volta Region
President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghanaian business empire, Groupe Nduom Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has...
New Oil Refinery Promises Are Ambitious – ACEP To Political Parties
The African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), wants political parties seeking to establish new oil refineries to be...
Tullow Gas Cut Won’t Spark Dumsor
Tullow’s 50% power cut to Ghana Gas will not have an impact on the power situation in the country, Corporate...
Parliament Divided Over $60 Million Loan Agreement
Parliament has approved a 60 million dollar loan being procured by the government of Ghana for the Electricity Company...
Banks’ Average Base Rate Increases To 27.8%
The latest Annual Percentage Rates (APR) and Average Interests (AI) on deposits report released by the Bank of Ghana...
Tullow Oil Cuts Gas Supply By Almost 50 Per Cent
Supply of gas in the country has been reduced by almost 50 per cent due to remedial works on the required upstream, the...
Election Slowing Port Operations
The upcoming presidential and parliamentary election is slowing operations at the ports, according to the Chief...
Kumasi, Tamale Airport Contracts Approved
Parliament has passed the buyer credit and commercial contract agreements between the government and some companies for...
ADB Bank Gives To Victims of Tidal Waves
The ADB Bank Limited has donated bundles of fishing nets and twines worth GH¢100,000 to fishermen who lost their...
Energy Sector Outlook For 2017 Uncertain
The African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) says that the energy sector outlook for 2017 presents significant levels of...
Tullow Oil Issues Financing Update
Tullow Oil says it has successfully completed the six-monthly redetermination of its Reserve Based Lend (RBL) facility....
Ghana Tops 2016 YALI Awards In Nigeria
Ghana's contingent to the 2016 edition of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI), hosted at the Administrative...