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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Tuesday 4 August, 2020 The viral videos of persons being prevented from entering voter registration centres is yet another classic manifestation of persistent and dangerous retrogression in ghana. The President of the Republic of Ghana (POTROG) said in Kumasi over the weekend that he was “not aware”! Now that is certainly a stretch. The Fulani have traversed Ghanaian soil for decades, yet there has been no effort by our Parliament to discuss their citizenship and enrol their children – who in many cases are born in Ghana – into our Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) programme. Even whenRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Monday 27 July, 2020 The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) includes essays that involve a real world scenario, specifically, the newspaper extract of something some CEO has said. The candidate will then be required to give a critique of that quote, while suggesting what additional information will be needed to make the quote complete and solid. Watching Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana’s Minister for Finance, in that viral three-minute video extract of an interview he granted on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” programme on Friday after the mid-year budget review presentation, we are amazed by his blatant whataboutery on the Kroll scandal; Ken Ofori-AttaRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah/Augustine Williams-Mensah Accra – Tuesday 21 July, 2020 Last week, we pored over several prospective job applications for roles in some government institutions, run of course with taxpayers’ money but we decided against submitting the applications.   Many Ghanaians simply do not trust that they shall get a fair chance at being shortlisted even when they are qualified.  Several apologists of political patronage have suggested that those of us who offer robust written critiques of happenings in ghana, have “exposed” some appointees who “feel insulted” and those appointees will therefore block our appointment to any advertised position that requires merit and ability. ButRead More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – 9 July, 2020 Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh aka Napo, Ghana’s Minister for Education (MOE) is a Medical Doctor. Now, the last place you would expect to hear dodgy logic is from the MOE and certainly not from the presiding Minister. But all is lost since that is precisely what happened during Napo’s interview on Peace FM today 9 July thus giving any discerning listener a violent headache. Kwami Sefa Kayi, the host concluded from Napo’s own argument during the Twi interview: “So then some have said, we should close down the schools, what do you think about it?” Napo replied:Read More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – 9 July, 2020 The President of the Republic of Ghana – POTROG – is missing; he has been missing for at least 72 hours. We the people must hear and see our president; we cannot trust the photograph issued by Eugene Arhin, Director of Communications at the Jubilee House, Accra; that photo could have been taken any day within the past 10 weeks. Besides we refuse to accept that our President will be seated at a table with used face masks lying on it. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Minister for Information recently issued a “STATEMENT” that said President Akufo-Addo wasRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 21 June, 2020 “He should come over here to ghana and see what we have to live with,” was my mentor’s response to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s comments on the growing problem of “anti-science bias” in the US during the “Learning Curve” podcast last week.  I have my battles, and my mentor has his, but sometimes they converge. Whether you are dealing with the stark illiterate or the so-called educated middle class– upwardly mobile, aspirational class; both most often have strange values and are often “impervious to reason”, to borrow my mentor’s term.  There are at least three reasons forRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah, Accra – 13 June, 2020 The vice chancellors (VCs) of ghana’s public universities ought to be made of sterner stuff; they should not act like lightweights. When they met POTROG at the Jubilee House, Accra, on Thursday, Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, Vice Chancellor of University of Ghana (UG) who was their spokesperson said: “You gave an order; that was a Presidential order, that Universities should reopen on the 15th of June. I think somewhere last week, some of the media carried news and I am sure probably some may have gotten to you; that some universities have defied the President’s ordersRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 6 June, 2020 The recent tragic events in the US concerning George Floyd should lead us to understand correctly the underpinnings of race. Otherwise, we run the risk of claiming to work for its rejection while still utilizing its bogus framework. Such a flawed understanding will lead to Elizabeth Ohene’s article “George Floyd: I can breathe here” published Wednesday 3 June on graphic.com.gh, Facebook, and many other places. There are no races only human beings. Kwame Anthony Appiah, the philosopher and many other scholars have succinctly explained this; scientists have proven this. Therefore in 21st century journalism it isRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 15 May 2020 Vicky Quarshie, a headache nurse at the Hull NHS Trust, will be laid to rest today 15 May. The burial service will take place at Haltemprice Chapel at 12:30 UK time. It will be available to Facebook friends and on the funeral home’s website. The middle aged nurse died after a short illness. Born Victoria Louise Banks, the British nurse married my uncle Samuel Ofori Quarshie, a nurse, whom she met at University of Hull, UK. They had two children Lauryn and Robert. Once upon a time Vicky came to Accra to visit her Ghanaian family.Read More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 14 May, 2020 Persons appointed as supreme court justices or to any office of responsibility must be of sound judgement and strict morals. But this week we saw a quintessential ghanaian in action – Justice Honyenuga. On 11 May, to our collective national embarrassment the Appointments Committee of Parliament vetted Justice Clemence Honyenuga, a supreme court nominee, appeals court judge and Paramount Chief of Nyagbo Traditional Area in the Volta Region (stool name; Torgbui Ashui Nyagasi V). Justice Honyenuga had in February been in the news for endorsing President Akufo-Addo for re-election, and had come under a storm orRead More →