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.

4760 Articles Joined March 2026

Articles by Kofi Asante

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Repayment of DKM Depositors Deferred To Second Week of October

The repayment process for depositors of defunct DKM Diamond Microfinance Company has been deferred to the second week...

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Certified DKM List Out Monday

The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) will on Monday October 3 commence the publication of the list of validated...

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Loss of US$200,000 Foundation Seeds To Be Investigated

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) is to conduct a probe into the circumstances that led to 60 tonnes of...

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Ghana, France Explore Public-Private Partnership Opportunities

Players in the Ghanaian and French private and public sectors have met in Accra to explore Public-Private Partnership...

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Hawkers Turn Kumasi Railways Bridge Into Shopping Mall

A footbridge linking the Kumasi Central Market to Adum and other parts of the central business district risk collapse...

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The Elusive World of Telecom Fraud. Which Way Forward?

Internet fraud has been known in Ghana for many years but until recently when the airwaves became awash with news of...

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Mobile Subscriber Numbers Shoot Up But More SIM Cards Unregistered

The mobile voice subscribers in the country is fast growing at a steady rate, raising concerns about how many of the...

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Prudential Bank Launches New Product

Prudential Bank has introduced another innovative e-banking product known as ‘mobiWise’ which seeks to help...

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Kosmos Offers US $100,000 Seed Funding To Two Business Start-Ups

Kosmos Innovation Centre (KIC), the corporate social investment initiative of Kosmos Energy Ghana, has awarded seed...

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AGI Welcomes President’s Directive On THC

Association of Ghana Industries has welcomed directive by President John Mahama to shipping lines to stop the Terminal...

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Korea Electric, ECG Sign Partnership Deal

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Korea Electric Power...

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Ban Dirty Fuels

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC-GH) is demanding a total ban on all substandard fuels with a high...

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COCOBOD Gives Out 400, 000 Liters of Fertilizers

One million, four hundred and thirteen thousand, three hundred and thirty three (1,413,333) hectares of cocoa farms in...

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DKM Customers Asked To Verify Names At Banks

Affected customers of DKM have been asked to submit their prove of evidence that they are customers/Creditors of DKM to...

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China-Ghana Trade Volume Hits Historic High US$6.6b

China-Ghana trade volume hit a historic high of US$6.6 billion in 2015, increasing by 18.2 per cent on year-on-year...

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Tullow Insured For Business Interruption Losses In Ghana

Insurance will cover the loss of production and claims regarding the interruption of business at one of West Africa's...

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Stop Terminal Handling Charges

President John Mahama has sent a strong signal to shipping companies to halt the implementation of the Terminal...

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Ghana, Mali Collaborate On Petroleum Downstream

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) and its counterpart in Mali, the National Office of Oil Products (ONAP), are...

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Fiscal Discipline Not Producing Growth

Dr Joe Abbey, Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA), has disclosed that even though the extended...

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Rethink Debt Management Strategy

The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) has called for a rethink of the country’s debt...