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

Business

Look at Innovative Ways of Adding Value to Ghana’s Local Produce for the Larger Export Market – Mahama Challenges Private Sector

The Private Sector has been challenged to look at innovative ways of adding value to the country's local produce for...

Business

Ghana to Double Oil Production by 2017

Ghana will double crude production by 2017 as offshore deposits being developed by Tullow Oil Plc and Eni SpA start...

Technology

$800m gas plant is the game changer- President Mahama

(Accra, The Presidency) President John Mahama says the expected benefits to the country from the Gas Processing Plant...

Technology

Tech in Africa Recap: All the Tech News and Stories That You Missed from August

August was an exciting month for a number of African companies, with a batch of funding rounds, acquisitions and new...

Business

Ghana Government to Establish and Run a New National Airline

According to reports reaching us from the daily graphic, Ghana will soon boast its own airline as the Ministry of...

Business

The World Bank Praises Ghana’s Economic Growth Over the Past 10 years

The World Bank has praised Ghana for what it calls the enviable growth of the country’s economy in terms of...

Technology

Tigo Ghana Appoints New Corporate Communications Chief

Tigo Ghana has been appointed Gifty Bingley as the head of Corporate Communications function. Bingley will be...

Health

Shama: A Weak Link in Ghana’s Fight Against Ebola ?

Shama, a fishing community in Ghana's Western Region with a population of close to 24,000 could possibly become one of...

Business

Oil Companies Withdrawing Staff from Nigeria and Liberia Amid Ebola Fears

Oil firms were last night withdrawing staff from Nigeria and Liberia after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared...

Business

Ghana’s Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) Breaks into West African Sub-Regional Market

Cocoa Processing Company Limited (CPC) says most of the structural challenges facing it have been resolved, as the...

Business

Ghana’s Cedi, Is The World’s Worst-Performing Currency This Year – 2014

Ghana’s cedi, the world’s worst-performing currency this year, weakened as the government ruled out an...

Technology

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.org App To Brings Free Access to Facebook and Google in Developing Countries

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.org initiative launched last year with the goal of helping make the internet...

Technology

Thousands Sign Up As PayPal launches in Nigeria.

PayPal has signed up "tens of thousand" of Nigerians in its first week of operating in Africa's biggest economy, with...

Business

Ghana’s Cashew Industry Generated $170 Million in 2013

The cashew industry generated 170 million dollars in the form of foreign exchange earnings for the economy in 2013. Mr...

Technology

Electricity Company of Ghana To Produce 1000 Megawatts of Power Using Tides Wave Technology at the Ada Estuary

With the help of a Swedish company, The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is working with to produce 1000 megawatts of...

Business

Bank of Ghana Boss Blames Ghana’s GH¢ 58 billion Debt on Ghanaians Unwillingness To Pay Tax

Dr. Kofi Wampah, the current Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), has blamed the nation's increasing public debt on...

Technology

Google Bans Porn From Its Advertisers Network

US based search engine giant, Google, has banned pornography from appearing in all of it's online ads. In an email sent...

Technology

Banking Software in West Africa Gets A Huge Boost

Distributors of TEMENOS banking software in West Africa, has announced a partnership with an additional four global IT...

Business

PayPal is entering 10 new countries this week, including Nigeria

PayPal is entering 10 new countries this week, including Nigeria, providing online payment alternatives for consumers...