Published by Fawol Media Group (FMG)
Founded in 2003 by a vociferous writer and impatient gadfly for African development, this media project grew out of a burning passion for Nigeria to begin to crawl out of its squalor and depressing morose into a bright new day of economic growth and prosperity. “We can do much better than this folks.”
Ike Mgbatogu, Nigerian-born, U.S. educated journalist wanted a news site able to offer meaningful contents, penetrating analysis of the news, fresh and insightful commentaries —- a site able to leverage social media technology as a conduit for informing Nigerians at home and abroad of current social and political events.
Onumba.com is published by its parent company Fawol Media Group (FMG). Onumba.com has been reporting news and offering analysis for decades, going back to when Ike was a contributing columnist for The Ohio Call & Post Newspaper owned by the legendary boxing promoter Don King. While managing Onumba.com, Ike also anchored the Columbus office of The Call & Post which was responsible for covering politics and community events in Ohio’s largest cities of Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.
Fawol is an acronym for ‘From All Walks of Life,” coined to convey our dyed-in-the-wool commitment to progress for all Nigerians regardless of ethnicity, religion and region. We won’t stand for any of that hackneyed schism along those lines. We will always project a posture of Pan-Africanism.
Our journey
After years anchoring the Columbus office of The Ohio Call & Post headquartered in Cleveland, penning wide-ranging columns published in the Call & Post newspaper, Cleveland.com, online home of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Black Press USA, The Michigan Citizen and others, Ike decided to focus on his own media project. Onumba.com has grown to become a reliable publisher of topically meaningful contents, relentlessly scouring the global news landscape to report on events affecting Nigerians, other Africans, African-Caribbeans and African-Americans.
Onumba in Igbo language of Nigeria in West Africa means the ‘the voice of the people’ or ‘the voice of the nation.’
Our mission is to educate, inform and empower Black people by delivering useful news from around the world. We check the pulse of global events, diagnose the social, political and economic ramifications for Black people, and then offer a reporting of the core issues involved.
And then, it’s all yours to chew on.
About the Publisher
Mgbatogu, who has interviewed former President Barack Obama and a concourse of other newsmakers from the world of politics, entertainment, diplomacy, religion and academia, obtained a Bachelor’s degree (BA) in Political Science (Cum Laude) and a Master of Administration in Public Administration (MPA), both from The Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA.
Four indulgences that I fiercely abhor: Corruption, skin bleaching, mistreating/abusing house maids and gossip.
To report news, email: onumbamedia@yahoo.com
