Newscenter Media News It happened 13 years ago, but somehow it started trending again on social media. It is the video of the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide and Covenant University, Bishop …
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Ghana’s 2024 General Election, lessons for Nigeria
Last Saturday, December 7, 2024, Ghana had her ninth general election in her Fourth Republic which started with the 1992 Constitution. On Monday, December 9, the Chairperson of the Electoral …
Read More »Afe Babalola: Of a man and his weakness
Contrary to assertions by some so-called experts who have been prattling all week that Dele Farotimi wrote what he could not logically substantiate in his book Nigeria and its Criminal …
Read More »Crossing the rubicon: Culture, defamation and free speech
This treatise invokes a legitimate question as to the nexus between the thematics of culture, free speech and defamation because, ostensibly, they are unrelated. That is an argument, albeit one …
Read More »Nigeria’s foreign policy in West Africa: Leadership or isolation?
Nigeria, as the most populous country in Africa and a key player on the continent, has long been at the forefront of discussions on regional security, diplomacy, and economic cooperation …
Read More »The stealing of Ballon d’Or
The award of the recent Ballon d’Or for the best European-based footballer to Spain’s 28-year old Manchester City midfielder, Rodri, instead of the red-hot favourite, Real Madrid’s 24-year old Afro-Brazilian …
Read More »Building a stronger Nigeria through health, transparency and human rights
Every December, we mark three international observances that are at the heart of the U.S.-Nigeria partnership: World AIDS Day, International Anti-Corruption Day, and Human Rights Day. While distinct, these commemorations …
Read More »Role of law officers to the judiciary – Part 2
The over-arching Constitutional power of the Attorney General as the Chief Law Officer, to initiate and conduct criminal proceedings come with the power to grant fiat to private prosecutors to …
Read More »Return of Oriana “Fallacious”
In an interview with Time newsmagazine in 1975, abrasive Italian journalist, Oriana Fallaci, was accused of sometimes fabricating quotations that she attributed to her interviewees, for which she was derogatively …
Read More »Should Africa fear Trump?
Imagining Africa under Donald Trump as he returns to power in January 2025 should be the most legitimate of all concerns. Africa’s actorness in global politics is still the weakest …
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