#ENDSARS: A WAKEUP CALL FOR NIGERIAN MEDIA (THE FOURTH ESTATE OR FOURTH POWER OF THE REALM)

By blaize Udunze I woke up this morning after my morning devotion; I dabbled into a mind boggling report on my WhatsApp platform. I told myself: The TRUTH be told, what are the roles of the MEDIA obligated and bestowed with the sole ethical responsibilities of being the watchdog of the society; must have PLAYED in the long aged corruptions that have infested and given birth to loss of lives, heinous carnage, wanton destruction of our personal and national wealth over the years in Nigeria???!!! After reading through this long…

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THE MAKING OF A CSR MASTERSTROKE: An X-ray of FirstBank’s yeoman effort to move 1m children to e-learning

The rabbit hole of uncertainty, confusion and fear that pupils and their parents fell into in the dying days of March when the country was in lockdown was best captured in a Saturday Sun feature of May 16, titled, “COVID-19: Troubles of e-Learning.”  The story catalogues the challenges that erupted out of the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the fears and frustrations brewed by the new abnormality foisted on the world, the pessimism that pervaded the globe from developed to underdeveloped countries and the possibilities that blew up in the aftermath…

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