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The Business and Financial Times(B&FT) is a Ghanaian privately owned newspaper which focuses on reporting business news from Ghana and across the African continent. [1] [2] [3] The newspaper is popularly known as the B&FT, it has a nationwide coverage and a readership of about 309, 000 as reported by Geopoll's ranking of nationwide top newspapers. [2] [4] Its mainly noted for its coverage on issues about the banking sector, local and international trade, the oil and gas sector and that of the macro and micro economy. [2]

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