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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, 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 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 →