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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Government Borrows $50m To Renovate Embassies

Societe Generale Ghana has signed a $50 million Credit Facility agreement with the Government of Ghana to finance the...

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GRA Exceeds Mid-Year Revenue Target

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has disclosed that the taxpayers’ office at Agbogbloshie in Accra realised revenue...

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GPRTU Fights Fuel Price Deregulation

The Ghana Road Transport Union (GPRTU) of the Trades Union Congress has kicked against the implementation of the second...

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ICU Backs Protest Against ECG Privatization

The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, ICU, has declared its support for workers of state owned power company,...

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Be Advised; We Can Do Worse – ECG Workers Tell Gov’t

Workers of the state-power distributor, Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) are ending their three-hour demonstration...

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Banks See Opportunities, Threats In Mobile Money

Banks need to deploy more technology and partner mobile network operators (MNOs) to leverage the electronic money...

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Journalist Can Stop Corruption In Oil and Gas Sector – ACEP

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), has called on media practitioners to demand transparency and accountability...

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Ghana Gas Workers Demonstrate, Management Says It’s Illegal

Ghanaian workers of the Ghana Gas company at Atuabo in the Western Region Friday laid down their tools in demand of...

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Expand Fertiliser Subsidy – Oxfam

Oxfam Ghana has appealed to the Government to expand fertiliser subsidy and irrigation programmes to shoot up earnings...

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Peasant Farmers To Benefit From the 2017 Budget

Government says it working towards providing direct support to the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) in the...

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Scrap VAT On Imported Drugs – Pharmacy Chamber

The Chamber of Pharmacy Ghana has renewed its campaign to get government to scrap Value Added Tax (VAT) on imported...

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No Value For Money In ECG Sale

The Coalition Against the Sale of Electricity Company of Ghana (CASECG) is vehemently kicking against the sale of ECG,...

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Ghana Must Develop Reliable Tax Data

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIT)-Ghana says it is developing a blueprint to help build a tax base data for the...

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IMF To Consider Ghana’s 3rd Review By Mid September

Citi Business News has gathered that the third review of Ghana’s program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

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Tarzan Disagrees With ECG Workers Over Privatization

The former Chief Executive Officer for the Volta River Authority (VRA) says he disagrees with the workers of the...

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No Budget Overruns This Election Year

Government is committed to ensure that there are no budget overruns this election year, Cassiel Ato Forson, Deputy...

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VRA Staff Want CEO Fired Over Plans To Cede T3 Plant To AMERI

Some workers of the Volta River Authority (VRA), have indicated they want the Chief Executive of Authority, Kirk...

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July Producer Price Inflation Increases By 2.7%

The year on year Producer Price Inflation (PPI) for July has hit 10.3 % an increase of 2.7% compared to that recorded...

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Government Owes Power Companies GHC3bn

Government owes power producers and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) over GHC3 billion. The amount comprises...

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Striking ECG Workers To Face Sanctions

The Power Ministry has said it may be forced to take punitive actions against workers of the Electricity Company of...