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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Mobile Data Subscriptions Hit Over 20 Million In Ghana

As at the end of January this year, the total subscriptions of mobile data in Ghana stand at more than 20 million with...

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Unemployed Graduates Engaged For ‘planting For Food and Jobs” In Volta

The Department of Agriculture in the Volta Region has engaged more than 100 unemployed graduates from agricultural...

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Ghana Institution of Engineers Gets First Female President

Ing. Mrs. Carlien Bou-Chedid has been sworn-in as the new President of Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE) at an...

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ABii National Wins Top Emerging Brand Award

ABii National Savings and Loans Limited, one of the leading non-bank financial services providers, has been voted the...

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Galamsey Impeding Quality of Our Service Delivery – MTN

Mobile Telecommunication giant, MTN, has said that activities of illegal mining operators in the Western Region, are...

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MMT To Suspend Operations In Brong Ahafo Over Limited Buses

out of the 61 fleet of buses in the region, only 45 of them were on the road The Brong-Ahafo Regional Manager of the...

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Gov’t To Scrap All Import Duties On Raw Materials

Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has hinted that government will soon scrap import duties on raw materials and...

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UBA Boss Promotes ‘Africapitalism’

The Group Chairman of UBA, Mr Tony Elumelu has stressed that entrepreneurship is key to achieving poverty reduction and...

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Free Zones Board Tours Western Region

The Ghana Free Zones Board (GFZB) is to set up a research department to undertake comprehensive studies of the...

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World Bank To Give Ghana $1.2bn, Africa $57bn

The World Bank Group, in the next three years, will extend a credit facility of $1.2billion to Ghana out of a chunk...

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I Lost $2 Million Dollars In One Day – Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom

Ghanaian serial entrepreneur and politician, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom is the cover profile for the April edition of the...

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Parliament Plans Gas Regulations

The Ministry of Energy is developing a Gas policy and other regulations that it hopes Parliament will pass before the...

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World Bank Supports Ghana With $1.2bn Credit

Ghana is to receive between 1.1 to 1.2 billion dollars in credit from the World Bank Group at least within the next...

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SG Bank, CFAO To Support Customers With Gen Sets

Societe General (SG) Ghana in partnership with the CFAO Equipment Ghana Limited, a subsidiary company of CFAO Group,...

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More Join Calls To Review Banking Age

Ms Sandra Tetteh, an 11-year old girl with her mates have joined the call on government to reduce the banking age to 15...

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Transport Ministry To Deepen Consultations On ‘Aayalolo’

The Ministry of Transport has rolled out a programme to educate private commercial vehicle drivers to desist from using...

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ICT Expert Expresses Concern Over Theft of Softwares

Mr Prince Pkasra, an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) expert, has expressed concerns over how people...

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Dr Mahama Hands Over To Dr Arthur As New Head of Service

Dr Callistus Mahama on Friday officially handed over to Dr Nana Ato Arthur as the new Head of the Local Government...

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Wa Airport Is Ready For Use

The construction of the Wa Airport Project which started in 2016 is now 100 percent complete and ready for...

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Machinery Alone Will Not Modernize Agriculture – Takpo Naa

Naa Widaana-Nanga II, Paramount Chief of Takpo Traditional Area, has said the provision of farm machinery and extension...