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Plans to raise $800m cocoa syndicated loan not aborted – COCOBOD
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has debunked reports that it has terminated the cocoa syndication loans for the 2023/2024 crop season.
In a press...
Collapse COCOBOD; allow farmers to sell directly to buyers – President of Cocoa farmers...
The President of the Concerned Cocoa Farmers Association, Nana Boateng Bonsu, has called for the dissolution of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD).
According to him,...
COCOBOD reacts to death of technicians who drowned in PBC reservoir
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has denied ownership of the fuel reservoir that claimed the lives of three technicians.
The deceased; Michael Ashie, Jonathan Kokroko,...
COCOBOD CEO’s friendly advice to Mahama
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has urged former President John Mahama not to hesitate in reaching out to...
Cocoa politics: You are being dishonest – COCOBOD CEO to Ato Forson
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has accused Minority leader, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, of dishonesty over the new...
Mahama, NDC’s cocoa farmers’ pension claims a hoax – COCOBOD CEO
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has described as a hoax, claims former President John Mahama set up a fund...
NDC demands COCOBOD CEO’s resignation
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, to resign from his position.
Their call...
Cocoa politics: COCOBOD replies Mahama
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has taken on former President John Mahama for criticising the government's increment of the farmgate price of cocoa beans...
Farmers charges on COCOBOD CEO for calling them ungrateful
The Ghana National Cocoa Farmers Association (GNACOFA) is peeved about the conduct of the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen...
Burkina Faso, Togo exporting cocoa produced in Ghana as intensified smuggling leaves COCOBOD with...
The finances of Ghana COCOBOD is in dire straits requiring urgent surgery to revive the once vibrant entity.
JoyNews is learning COCOBOD lost almost 600 million...
COCOBOD to complete existing cocoa road projects but… – CEO
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has assured that cocoa road projects under construction across Ghana will be continued and completed.
However, new cocoa road projects...
PAC orders COCOBOD to submit audit report on cocoa roads within 2 weeks
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has ordered the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to submit its audit report on the cocoa roads project within two...
COCOBOD undertakes cocoa bills debt exchange
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) on Friday launched a debt securities exchange programme, inviting holders of its short-term debt securities (cocoa bills) to exchange...
COCOBOD, police intercept cocoa concealed in 35 oil drums, one arrested
Quantities of bags of cocoa beans concealed in 35 oil drums and being smuggled have been intercepted through a joint operation of Ghana Cocobod...
Minority takes on COCOBOD after Mahama’s claims on cocoa sector
The Minority in Parliament has risen to defend former President John Mahama and his claims about the cocoa sector.
John Mahama claims the country’s cocoa...
COCOBOD refutes former President Mahama’s claims of collapsed cocoa sector
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has refuted claims by former President John Dramani Mahama that the cocoa sector in Ghana has collapsed.
The former President had...
COCOBOD intercepts over 1,500 bags of smuggled cocoa
Ghana Cocoa Board’s (COCOBOD) Anti-smuggling Task Force in collaboration with the security agencies, has within two weeks, retrieved over 1,500 bags of cocoa, en...
Former COCOBOD workers petition parliament over unpaid benefits
A group of aged men who are former workers of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) have petitioned parliament over their unpaid benefits.
The group members,...
New twist to COCOBOD trial
Justice Clemence Honyenuga, the trial judge who has been hearing the case of the former Cocoa Board Chief Executive Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni and...
Galamsey: COCOBOD loses ¢4.8 billion in Western Region
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says it has lost GH¢4.8 billion worth of investment in 35 hectares of cocoa farms to illegal mining (galamsey)...
COCOBOD trial: Agongo takes on Honyenuga
Businessman Seidu Agongo has said Justice Clemence Honyenuga cannot be a fair arbiter in the ongoing GHS271-million financial loss case since he had a...
COCOBOD trial: I have ‘limited time’ to wrap up; your medical excuses ‘delaying’ me...
Justice Clemence Honyenuga has said the medical excuses of the second accused person, Mr Seidu Agongo, in the ongoing GHS217-million financial loss case in...
COCOBOD Case: AG sends officers to Korle-Bu to monitor Agongo
Lawyers of Businessmen Seidu Agongo and Agricult Ghana Limited, the 2nd and 3rd Accused in the ongoing Ghana Cocoa Board trial have accused the...
PAC sends all-important message to COCOBOD
The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has urged the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to clear Ghana's bad name of engaging school-going children on the...
Man arrested over COCOBOD recruitment scam
Bernard Frimpong Boateng, unemployed, who allegedly collected GHC21, 800 under the pretext of facilitating the recruitment of three persons into COCOBOD but failed has...
COCOBOD trial: Doctor justifies 6 weeks excuse duty to Opuni
The Medical Director of St. Lucy Eye Clinic, Dr Kodjo Abalo, has provided justification for the six weeks excused duty granted to Dr Stephen...
COCOBOD signs $1.13bn syndicated loan for 2022/2023 cocoa crop season
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed a $1.13 billion syndicated loan to finance the purchase of cocoa beans for the 2022/2023 crop season.
The...
COCOBOD secures US$1.13bn to purchase cocoa
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has secured US$1.13 billion from a consortium of international banks and financial institutions to purchase cocoa beans in the...
3 arrested for smuggling Cocobod, PFJ fertilisers
Three persons are in the grip of the police for their alleged involvement in the re-bagging and illicit smuggling of government-subsidized fertilisers.
They were picked...
COCOBOD sends strong message over fertilisers, agric inputs
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has cautioned persons diverting subsidised fertilisers and agric inputs meant for cocoa farmers to stop or risk prosecution.
According to...
COCOBOD trial: Regional managers lobbied me for more Lithovit fertiliser – Former Deputy Director
A former Deputy Executive Director in charge of Monitoring and Evaluation of the Cocoa Health Extensions Division (CHED) now retired from the Ghana Cocoa...
Beyi W’ano: COCOBOD sets records straight on Assin Wurakese Cocoa Research Institute
Ghana Cocoa Board has set the records straight on the current state of the Cocoa Research Institute at Assin Wurakese in the Central Region.
It...
COCOBOD announces closure of main cocoa crop season
The Ghana COCOBOD has announced the closure of the main cocoa crop season.
“It is hereby notified for general information that purchases of the 2021/2022...
COCOBOD trial: Lithovit fertiliser was our saviour; bring it back – Farmer tells court
A cocoa farmer from Berekum in the Bono Region has described Lithovit Liquid fertiliser as farmers' “great saviour” while appealing to government to bring...
COCOBOD reacts to payment of inconvenience, overnight allowances
JoyNews/AdomNews · COCOBOD on allowances to Board members
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has reacted to alleged illegal allowances paid to Directors of its Board.
Head...
Board Directors of COCOBOD receive inconvenience and overnight allowance – Ablakwa alleges
Member of Parliament for North Tongu constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has alleged that, Board members of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) are paid "inconvenience and...
COCOBOD CEO enstooled Nkosuohene of Sefwi Bankyease [Photos]
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has been enstooled as the Cocoa Nkosuohene of Sefwi Bankyease in the...
COCOBOD records ¢42.14m loss in 2020
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) posted a net loss of ¢42.14 million in 2020 compared to a net profit of ¢1.478 billion in 2019, a...
COCOBOD partners academy of arts and sciences to boost cocoa consumption
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) and the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) have joined forces to conduct extensive research into the use of...
Russia/Ukraine war affects fertilizer price – COCOBOD
The Russia and Ukraine war keeps impacting global food supply chains and Ghana’s major export earner, cocoa, is not left out.
Chief Executive of Ghana...