May 2026

There are broadcast journalists who do one thing well. And then there are people like Erin Mayovsky — who have anchored the news, forecast the weather, reported sports from the sidelines, hosted lifestyle shows in Florida, worked as a model…

There are meteorologists who simply tell you whether to carry an umbrella. And then there are meteorologists who make you feel like someone genuinely cares whether you get rained on. Erin Little is firmly in the second category — which is…

In Nigerian politics, the distance between technocrat and governorship candidate can be remarkably short — if you have the right relationships, the right record, and the right timing. Bimbo Adekanmbi appears to have all three. A former…

There is a particular kind of political career that is built slowly, across decades, through party structures and provincial chambers before arriving at national prominence. Nokuzola Gladys Tolashe — known widely as Sisisi or Sisi Tolashe —…

Not every celebrity can trace their polish back to a small Nigerian town and speak about it with genuine warmth. Uti Nwachukwu can. "Growing up in Ughelli was really great," he has said in interviews, adding that even now, thinking about…

There are television journalists who deliver the news, and then there are those who understand the news — who feel its weight, who carry the stories they cover into their personal lives and let those stories shape what they do off-camera.…

Not many people travel the distance from coastal mine hunting in the United States Navy to the CEO's chair of a Detroit-based renewable energy technology company — with a Bayview Mackinac sailing race, a veteran suicide awareness campaign,…

Most comedians spend their careers trying to get people to notice them. Benjamin Bankole Bello — better known to audiences across Britain, TikTok, and large swathes of the internet as President Obonjo, Supreme Leader of the Lafta Republic —…

If you have ever watched Downton Abbey on PBS, you have seen Darlene Marcos Shiley — even if you did not know her name. She appears in those brief, polished opening spots before each episode, a familiar face to millions of Masterpiece…

Some careers are measured in years. Others are measured in the mark they leave on institutions, on colleagues, and on the communities they served. Smt. Lavanya B.N. — Superintendent of Police with BESCOM Vigilance in Karnataka — built the…