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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – Saturday 5 September, 2020 On Friday evening, the President granted an interview to Oman FM 107.1MhZ of Accra during which he was given an opportunity to tell us that he has now become “aware” of the things he had on earlier occasions denied awareness of. Towards the end, the host also gave the President a chance to take credit for his COVID-19 efforts. He spoke about a solid team he had put in place: he mentioned “a deputy Director-General of WHO” whom he had enrolled, he mentioned “Dr. Okoe Boye” a deputy minister for health he had enrolled along theRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah in Accra, Ghana & F.KN. Olympio, Dr. phil. in Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany 26 April, 2020 Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko’s write-up “IS LOCKDOWN THE ONLY SCIENCE-DRIVEN OPTION FOR GHANA?” is typical influencer stuff. It was all anecdotal stuff, wild speculations and dodgy logic from a campaign strategist who was trying to justify POTROG’s 7th Coronavirus address during which the lockdown of Accra, Kumasi and Kasoa was relaxed. Gabby introduced social science into the debate, suggesting that the scientists have no knowledge of social science, or rather that their worldview is so limited that it does not include bread and butter issues. Hear Gabby:Read More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah/Ekow Arthur-Aidoo Accra – 22 April, 2020 Our article titled “Paul Adom-Otchere: the representational agency of a failed state” has generated much interest, and calls for a sequel. The key concerns include1) is ghana really a failed state?; 2) why focus on Paul and go easy on Zanetor?; and 3) that since that controversial Good Evening Ghana programme (GEG) wounds from the Rawlings era atrocities have been opened. Let us examine these concerns based solely on principles with no malice whatsoever towards any personality. First, we have published numerous articles on this blog with facts, evidence and reason to buttress the pointRead More →

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By F.K.N. Olympio Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany – 15 April 2020. The consequences of loss of control – blame game here, conspiracy theories there. The novel corona virus originated from Wuhan in the Chinese province of Hubei – that is fact. The Chinese government downplayed early reports of infections including an unusual pneumonia accompanied by fever, headache, and dry, strenuous, repeated coughs without mucus. That is also a fact. The first reported death due to covid 19 also called Sars-Cov-2 by its scientific name occurred on the 11 of Jan. 2020. That is also widely known. That the Chinese first notified the World Health Organisation byRead More →