Articles by Kofi Asante
Ghana Loses $2.1 Billion To Tax Evasion Annually
Ghana loses nearly $2.1 billion dollars to tax evasion and incentives annually, reveals a study carried out by the...
Ghana IGF 2015 Was A Success – Akumiah
The Ghana Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has chalked success in creating awareness on internet governance issues and...
PUWU Peddling Falsehood
The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) has rejected claims by the Public Utilities Workers Union (PUWU) that the...
Gov’t Clears GHS250m Out of GHS4.4bn Energy Debt
The Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Ghana (BoG), and the Ghana Bankers Association have announced plans to pay the...
Importers Cry Foul As THC Stirs Confusion
Barely a week after the Transport Ministry reiterated that the suspension of the Terminal Handling Charges at the ports...
Utilities Debt Endangers IMF Programme
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has conditioned its next review of the US$918 million Extended Credit Facility...
GN Bank Does Not Offer Cheapest Mortgage Loans
The Bank of Ghana has retracted its earlier report suggesting that GN Bank offers the lowest rate on mortgages in the...
Dollar Denominated Bonds To Stabilize Cedi – Economist
Economist, Dr. Lord Mensah says government’s dollar denominated bonds to be issued next month, will help stabilize...
Power Ministry To Meet PUWU Over ECG Privatization
The Ministry of Power, the Public Utilities Workers Union (PUWU) and the Millennium Development Authority (MIDA), have...
Mobile Money Interest Payments Start September 11- Bank of Ghana
Telecom operators are to share an estimated 12.2 million cedis among mobile money customers in the first payments of...
Business Journalism Good For Ghana’s Growth
The President of Groupe Ideal, Nii Kotei Dzani has reiterated his commitment to supporting the growth of the financial...
Payment of Interest On Mobile Money On September 11
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has given the go ahead to mobile money operators for all of them to pay interest on the mobile...
‘ECG Privatization’ Won’t Lead To Lay-Offs
The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), has downplayed assertions by the Public Utilities Workers Union (PUWU)...
Government To Loan GHC25.2bn
Government plans to borrow an amount of GHC25.2 billion (GHC25,270 million) for the remaining five months of 2016. The...
Atuabo Shutdown May Cause Dumsor – Jinapor
Deputy Power Minister, John Jinapor, says shutdown of the Atuabo Gas Processing plant on Wednesday for mandatory...
Government May Withdraw Fiscal Stabilization Levy In 2017
Citi Business News has learnt that the Ministry of Finance is working to withdrawal the National Reconstruction Levy...
IMF Team In Ghana To Finalise Work On Third Review
The visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff mission to Ghana on Monday began work to assess the country's...
ACEP Calls For Quick Assent To Petroleum Exploration and Production Law
That was the Deputy Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) is calling on the President to as...
Mobile Money Not A Threat To Banks – BEIGE Boss
The Chief Executive Officer of BEIGE Capital, Mike Nyinaku, says the explosion of mobile money services pose no threat...
Bawumia Announces Annual $275m For Infrastructure Development
Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the 2016 vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has announced that an...