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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Oil Revenue Alone Cannot Support Development

Professor Paul Buah-Bassuah of the University of Cape Coast and Chairman for the Public Interest and Accountability...

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UCC Establishes More Businesses To Boost IGF

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has inaugurated three business ventures as part of efforts to generate more income...

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Banks, Telcos Urged To Collaborate To Capture the Unbanked

Banking Consultant, Nana Otuo Acheampong is encouraging greater collaboration between banks and telecommunication...

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Patience Is Strong Virtue In Finance

Recent headline news on the microfinance sector is not interesting reading. Day in, day out, column inches of...

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Only Residential Users Should Pay Energy Levies – Oteng Gyasi

A former President of the Association of Ghana Industries , Tony Oteng Gyasi, is impressing on government to limit the...

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Customer Service At Fuel Stations

Any business outfit that provides excellent customer service is likely to benefit from free word-of-mouth marketing...

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SMEs Bear Brunt of Loans Cut Off By Banks

Some Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have already begun feeling the pinch from the caution by banks to cut...

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Dalex CEO Wins Best Businessman of the Year Award

Mr. Ken Thompson Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance Mr Ken Thompson has won the Business & Financial Times (B&FT)...

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NSIA Insurance Calls For An End To Premium Undercutting Among Insurers

The General Manager in charge of operations at NSIA Ghana Insurance Limited, Mr. Samuel Adoteye-Asare has called on the...

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Ghana, Turkey Bilateral Trade Hits $400m

Nesrin Bayazit, Ambassador of Turkey to Ghana, has disclosed that bilateral trade between the two countries currently...

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SOEs Must Resort To Stock Market For Funds

Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has made a strong case for State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to resort to the Ghana Stock...

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Trade Minister Issues Stern Warning To Importers

Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, the Trade and Industry Minister, has cautioned importers to desist from making false declaration of...

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Mineworkers Warn of Activities of Illegal Miners

The Ghana Mine Workers Union (GMWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has warned that if steps are not taken to stop...

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UniBank Is 6th Best Company In Ghana

Indigenous bank UniBank has been named Ghana’s 6th Best Company at the 2016 Ghana Club 100 Awards. Held at the plush...

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Give Ghanaian Companies An Opportunity- Beige CEO To Gov’t

The Chief Executive Officer of Beige Capital, Mike Nyinaku has appealed to government to give Ghanaian companies an...

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Deal With Corruption, Fraud In SOEs — Rashid Pelpuo

The Minister of State in-charge of Public-Private Partnership, Mr Rashid Hassan Pelpuo, has tasked the newly...

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Textile Sellers Petition Government Over Task Force

The Textile Sellers Association at the Kumasi Central Market has petitioned the Minister of Trade and Industry over the...

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TEN Won’t Ease ‘dumsor’

The completion of the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) fields, which will see Ghana producing 80,000 barrels of oil daily,...

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Invest Oil Revenue In Infrastructural Projects

The African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), has urged government to use revenue from the country’s oil production to...

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Takoradi Records Least Decline As Tomato Prices Drop Again

In the third week in August, the price of tomatoes recorded the highest drop of 16 percent. A medium size tin of the...