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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Micro Finance Company Disappears With Amputee’s Money

A 24-year-old woman is left to her fate after a micro-finance company where she invested her insurance benefit...

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Don’t Strike – NLC Warns Biomedical Lab Scientists

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has ordered the Ghana Association of Biomedical Laboratory Scientists (GABMLS),...

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Private Sector Will Flourish Again Under NPP

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated his commitment...

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Oil Sector Provides 7,000 Jobs, Mahama Declares At TEN Oil Field

The oil and gas sector has so far provided 7,000 jobs in Ghana, President John Dramani Mahama has stated. He said...

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BoG To Weed Out Unscrupulous Microfinance Institutions

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is strengthening its licensing requirements in order to weed out unscrupulous microfinance...

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AGI Urges Private Sector To Support EXIM Bank

The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has urged the private sector to support government’s efforts in the...

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Ghana Can’t Survive Without IMF

Daniel Amateye Anim, Chief Executive of the Institute of Certified Economists, has stated that Ghana cannot survive...

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TOR Turns Bank Debts Into Bonds

Tema Oil Refinery Limited (TOR), Ghana’s only processor of crude into fuels, is seeking to convert bank loans it had...

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10 Airlines Chase Government Over National Airline Deal

Ten airlines comprising of both local and international ones have shown interest in partnering government to establish...

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FPSO Atta Mills To Further Boost Local Content – Mahama

President Mahama has indicated that the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Atta Mills’s vessel would...

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Gov’t Imposes 5% Tax On Casual, Temporary Workers

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has stated that the passage of the legal instrument(LI) under the country’s Income...

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Government To Prioritise Local Content In Oil Production – Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has promised that his government will increase the use of local resources in the...

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TEN Fields Will Drive Economic Growth – GNPC

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Mr Alexander Mould has said the start...

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TEN Fields’ Timely First Oil Pleasing – Tullow

Tullow Oil plc, one of the partners operating in the TEN Fields in Ghana’s Western Region, has said it is pleased to...

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Terkper Lobbies Businesses On EXIM Bank

Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has intensified lobbying for private sector businesses to enroll onto the Ghana Export...

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We Haven’t Abandoned 2016 Eurobond Issue

Government has dismissed reports that it has abandoned its decision to issue yet another Eurobond this year. According...

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TEN Oil Production Starts Today

President John Mahama will Thursday turn the valves of the FPSO John Evans Atta Mills to mark commercial production of...

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Government Must Be Serious With Energy Crisis

Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Groupe Nduom, has called on government to...

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Mahama’s Single Digit Promise Not Feasible

Professor Newman Kusi, Executive Director of Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), has stated that government’s...

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Mahama Turns Valves Tomorrow For TEN Oil To Flow

President John Mahama will tomorrow turn the valves of the John Evans Atta Mills FPSO to mark commercial production of...