Articles by Kofi Asante
Bokpin Tells Government
Economist and Head of Finance at the University of Ghana Business School Professor Godfred Bokpin has said clamours by...
TEN Project 99% Done
The TEN project is 99 per cent complete, Kosmos Energy, one of the partners working in Ghana’s Jubilee oil fields in...
Government Approves $230m Renewable Energy Investment Plan
The Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper has announced the approval of a $230 million scaling-up Renewable Energy...
IMF To Engage Gov’t Over Amended Bank of Ghana Act
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will in the coming days engage government on the status of the country’s...
Rejection of Ghana On Foreign Market Due To Borrowing – Analyst
Ghana’s failure to receive favourable response on the international market for its 700 million-dollar eurobond has...
Homegrown Solutions Better Than IMF Bailout – TUC To Gov’t
The outgoing General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Kofi Asamoah, has bemoaned government’s decision...
Inflation Down To 16.7%
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has released the inflation rate for July 2016 with Consumer Price Inflation (CPI)...
Acute LPG Shortage Hits Accra
The Greater Accra region has been hit by acute shortage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). Checks by Citi Business News...
FPSO Kwame Nkrumah To Be Fully Restored In Mid-2018
Installation of a deep water Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring (CALM) buoy on Floating Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO)...
Eurobond Setback Calls For Renegotiation of IMF Deal
Head of the Economics Department at the University of Ghana, Professor Peter Quartey, has asked that government...
10,000 Mineworkers Lose Jobs
Over 10,000 mineworkers across the country have lost their jobs over the past three years, the Ghana Mine Workers Union...
Jubilee Partners To Cough US$150m To Fix FPSO
Jubilee Field operator, Tullow Oil, estimates that it will cost the five partners between US$100 million and US$150...
Kosmos Energy Posts Poor Second Quarter Results Due To Low Oil Production
Kosmos Energy has posted a net loss of $108.3 million for the second quarter of 2016 due to low production of oil. A...
Abandon IMF Austerity, Spend More
Economist and Managing Director of the Ghana Growth Fund Company (GGFC), Kwame Ofori Asomaning has warned government to...
There’s No GMO Seed On the Market
Seed traders are allaying fears of presence of Genetically Modified Organism planting materials are already on the...
CLOGSAG Can’t Get Premiums, We Didn’t Plan For It – Gov’t
The Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Haruna Iddrisu, has stated that government cannot pay the interim...
Gov’t Sleeping On Small Scale Enterprises – Akufo-Addo
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his government intends...
‘Stable’ Power Supply Due To Increase In Hydro Generation – GRIDCo
The marginal increase in generation from the hydro sources power sector may have contributed to the relative stability...
Parliament Urges BoG To Apply New Laws Strictly
Parliament has advised the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to strictly implement the Banks and Specialised Deposit Taking Bill...
NPP Will Not Remove All Taxes
The flag bearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has never indicated anywhere...