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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New Tax Retention Policy Could Be Reviewed – Kwaku Kwarteng

Government has stated that it would only take a second look at the newly introduced administrative measure in the tax...

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Finance Ministry Defends New Tax Exemption Rules

Despite the increased number of concerns for government to restructure the tax exemption directive for importers,...

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Vice President Assures of Turning Economy Around

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has assured Ghanaians in Diaspora that the Government was committed to making Ghana...

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March Producer Inflation Inches Up To 6 Percent

The year-on-year Producer Price Index (PPI) for March 2017 increased from 5.4 percent in February to 6 percent in...

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Government To Issue $2bn Bond To Pay Energy Debts – Oppong Nkrumah

The Akufo-Addo government is set to issue a $2.24billion bond in the coming days to pay the huge debt burdening the...

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Ministry of Food and Agriculture Sells Government Car For GHc1,000

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of parliament on Wednesday grilled officials of the Ministry of Food and...

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MoneyGram Presents First Suzuki Alto

Love Oduro, an 80-year-old retired educationist at the weekend, won the first of MoneyGram’s six Suzuki Altos as part...

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Economy Expands Slowly

A shutdown of the country’s oil and gas fields last year caused Ghana’s economy to grow at the slowest pace in 26...

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Indomie Rewards Distributors With Home Appliances

Leading Noodles brand, Indomie, has rewarded another set of distributors with top of the range home appliances. The...

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IFS Cautions Government To Restrain Expenditure

Unhappy with the tight fiscal space government is confronted with, economic Policy Think- Tank, the Institute for...

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IFS Cautions Government On Expenditure

Unhappy with the tight fiscal space government is confronted with, economic Policy Think-Tank, the Institute for Fiscal...

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Planting For Food & Jobs; Figures To Note As Project Takes Off

The Akufo-Addo administration launched the “Planting for Food and Jobs” programme this month , with the view of...

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Fifty Companies To Receive Government Support

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) has selected 50 companies that will be provided with a stimulus package to...

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15 Year Energy Bond Timely For Banks’ Rising NPLs – CAL Bank MD

Banks are optimistic of significant improvement in their non-performing loan portfolios as government initiates moves...

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HFC Bank Appoints Charles Zwennes As New Board Chair

HFC Bank Ghana, a subsidiary of Republic Financial Holdings Limited, has appointed Mr. Charles William Zwennes as the...

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Deal On Aboadze-Tema Gas Pipeline Not Concluded

The Ghana National Gas Company has refuted media reports that it has concluded an agreement with the Chinese...

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Banks Write Off GHC175 Million

Bank's total provision for the first two months still remained high, according to the latest Banking Sector Report....

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Banks Write Off GHc175m

Banks total provision for the first two months still remained high, according to the latest Banking Sector Report....

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Distressed Companies To Benefit From GHC220m Rescue Package

The government, through its National Industrial Revitalisation Programme (NIVP) has provided GH?220 million to revive...

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Consumption of Aviation Fuel Up By 18%

Last year, consumption of aviation turbine kerosene (ATK), the fuel used by aircraft, rose by 17.9 per cent to 140,272...