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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 11 November, 2019 In July this year, an Accra High Court ordered Ghana Education Service (GES) to reinstate Augustine Mac-Hubert Gabla and pay his salary arrears outstanding from 2013. The court ruled that GES had failed to follow due process and the principles of natural justice; Gabla had been “constructively” dismissed in a manner that was unlawful, capricious and against his fundamental human rights. In October 2018, the supreme court of Ghana determined that Professor Mawutor Avoke was not removed from his position as vice chancellor of University of Education Winneba (UEW) under the right procedure. The powers thatRead More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – 7 November, 2019 While reflecting on 2 November, – All Souls Day a little girl asked me, “Why did God allow us to be born only for us to die later?” “There is nothing like death; it is part of life,” I replied, sharing with her my mentor’s perspective. Such it was as the Christian world and beyond meditated on death and the afterlife during All Souls Day, Halloween and the Day of the Dead. The powerful sermon “The Beauty of Death”, delivered by Rev. Akua Ofori-Boateng at the All Souls Chapel, Lashibi – Ghana, the leading funeral home isRead More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – 4 November, 2019 Twenty-four years ago on 4 November, 1995, Yitzhak Rabin, an Israeli Prime Minister (PM), and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was assassinated by an extremist Israeli. The world cannot forget the historic moment when Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin, met US president Bill Clinton at Camp David, in a determined search for peace. The Oslo Peace Accord (signed by Rabin, Shimon Peres and Arafat; all subsequent joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize) was supported by many countries including Ghana. It recognized the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) as Israel’s partner in permanent status negotiations, and theRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 1 November, 2019 Teaching African students in Africa to accept themselves as Africans is tough; you either win the class or lose your job. One of the objectives of the course Global Comparative Media is: to identify global best practices and highlight them as “This is what global media does.” Of course you should grant me the space that as an African lecturer I MUST find examples of African best practice that conform to the highest global standards. “Sir they say my kinky hair is unkempt,” said a female student. “And the camera is not friendly to the blackRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 31 October, 2019 Yesterday my Copywriting class having enjoyed See Ghana Magazine – Parody #1, asked why I had not written part 2. “You want me to say that the magazine has not been successful as I predicted?” I asked. “The lesson for copywriters and radio presenters is that when a client asks you to promote a product you must ask CRITICAL questions. Catherine Afeku, the former minister for tourism, creative arts and culture herself was going about in Western style wigs as she was promoting ‘Ghanaian culture’ and the See Ghana Magazine.” She also engaged Abeiku Aggrey SantanaRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 25 October, 2019 “There is no business plan that says the business will not work,” says my mentor. Pasico Ghana have done their best, and failed, and the government of Ghana through the Ghana Revenue Authority has shut down their operations this week for non-payment of an estimated 4.8 million cedis (close to a million dollars) tax revenue owed over a period of time. This is the government of “The private sector is the engine of growth” mantra. Some years ago, I wrote an article commending Nana Akufo-Addo’s visit to Germany as an opposition leader. He was welcomed byRead More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – 23 October, 2019 In the age of the convergent media, branding an online radio station means that practically all of your public relations skills must be brought to bear on your team. But as my mentor has stated, “public relations and the other mass communications programmes for which bachelor’s degrees are awarded are not enough to make you a professional.” Currently, this is especially difficult for Ghanaians to understand. When you switch on and hand over a microphone to untrained and uneducated persons you will always have a real problem on your hands. Radio station managers therefore have a greaterRead More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – 21 October, 2019 “Mr Kevin Taylor”, writersghana.com says, “May God bless you abundantly.” “Bold to defend forever the cause of freedom and of right,” these are some of the words of the Ghana National Anthem. Kevin Taylor has been a lone crusader against the fraudulent Power Distribution Service (PDS) deal for several weeks now. How many of us know that to be a crusader is to adopt the cross – a symbol of truth? That is what it means, period. Before Saturday’s midnight announcement of the cancellation of the PDS contract, the powers that be had created rival social mediaRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 18 October, 2019 BlueCrest College in Kokomlemle Accra is organising a matriculation ceremony today for 260 students. It is no secret that private universities in Ghana are struggling to enroll new students. Many of these institutions are relatively new; all of them established within the last 20 years. “Ensuring that Africa’s youthful population is healthy, educated and well-equipped for the future is the best way to eradicate poverty in Africa and contribute to the world’s stability and prosperity,” wrote Hafez Ghanem, World Bank vice president for Africa on 18 October 2018 on worldbank.org. Guided by such a philosophy, AureosRead More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – 16 October, 2019 President Akufo-Addo has told the first batch of the free Senior High School (SHS) corps to “pass well and shame” the detractors and critics of the policy. The media have widely reported him as saying so during visits to St Monica’s Senior High School in Kumasi and also at Nkawkaw Senior High School, Nkawkaw, during his recent tour. The president mentioned civil society groups and individuals as those to be shamed and this presents several problems. Respectfully, where is the shame Mr President? Does anyone expect our children to fail so that they go and pay forRead More →