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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Kyebi Water Treatment Plant Shut Down Over Galamsey

The Kyebi Water Treatment plant has been shut down because the water has been left untreatable. The plant which serves...

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Foreign Retailers Push Rent Charges To Over 300%

The influx of foreign retailers in the country is not only putting Ghanaians out of business but also increasing rent...

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Who Are the Beneficiaries? – COPEC

The Executive Council of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) has raised questions about which institutions...

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Ghana’s New Airline To Fly October

A new national carrier for Ghana is expected to be flying by October this year, the Transport Minister Fifi Kwetey has...

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Plant ‘shut Down’ Not To Impact Power Supply Hugely – Ghana Gas

The Ghana Gas Company Limited has ruled out any significant impact of its ten day shutdown of the Atuabo gas processing...

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Ghana Gas Closure Will Not Affect Power Generation

The Communications Manager of Ghana Gas Company Limited Alfred Ogbamey has assured that the ten-day closure of Ghana...

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Orios Capital Plans $1m Startup Fund

Orios Capital, an emerging patient capital firm established to co-invest into scalable and impact-based startups in...

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Stock Exchange Total Volume Traded Hits 1.3 Million Shares

The Producer Price Inflation for the fourth week of August (22-26) rose to 10.3 per cent year – on – year while...

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Dont’ Create Panic In the Banking and Finacial Markets

The Head of Communications of the Bank of Ghana (BOG), Mr. Bernard Otabil, has asked business and financial journalists...

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MFI Scam Victims ‘greedy’

Founder of UT Holdings, Prince Kofi Amoabeng, has said there should not be too much sympathy for “greedy” victims...

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Government Issues 5-Yr Bond To Tame Cedi Pressure

Government’s decision to re-open a five-year GHC400million domestic bond has bolstered expectations that the cedi...

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Lending To Oil Sector ‘risky’

Founder of UT Holdings, Prince Kofi Amoabeng, has advised the banking sector to be cautious in lending to importers of...

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Government Performance In Agric Sector Not Encouraging

A senior lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Robert Aidoo has advised...

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Safeway Tilapia Limited Halts Operations

Customers of Safeway Tilapia Investment Company Limited whose monies have been locked up in the company may not be...

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Average Interest On Car Loans In Ghana Hit 32%

A new report released by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) on Annual Percentage Rates (APR) and Average Interest(AI) paid on...

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Nduom Wins Business Personality Award

The President of Groupe Nduom, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, was adjudged the 2015 Best Ghanaian Business Personality of the...

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Atuabo Gas To Shut Down For 10 Days

Ghana Gas Company Limited is to shut down the Atuabo gas processing plant for 10 days. The shut down to start from...

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Scrap Taxes On Medicines

The Chamber of Pharmacy Ghana, has called for the removal of the current taxes on medicines, which are contributing to...

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Mantrac Ghana Sacks 70 Workers

Mantrac Ghana has terminated the appointment of 70 of its workers which will take effective from Thursday 25th August,...

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Banks Should Prepare For Bigger Businesses

Former Chief Executive Officer of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) has challenged Ghanaian Banks in the country...