A former sports reporter at Nigeria’s Vanguard Newspapers in Lagos, Ita moved to the United States and has since worked at multiple US mainstream media organizations. He served as a municipal and county government reporter for The Gazette newspapers in Maryland, and as a government and schools reporter for The Kansas City Star in Missouri. He also worked as the Assistant City Editor at The Springfield News-Sun, a Cox Ohio publication. Pastor Ita founded and hosted the Good Morning, Africa and Good Day Africa radio talk shows on Washington, D.C. area radio stations in the United States. In 2004, he founded the National Association of African Journalists (NAAJ) and served as its first president. He served as a two-term Vice President (Print) of the Kansas City Association of Black Journalists, and as the first president of the US-based Nigerian Sports Journalists in the Diaspora (NSJID). Ita is a 2007 fellow of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at The Ohio State University. The Kiplinger Program honors six U.S. journalists with enterprise projects that could impact U.S. public policy. At Howard University, he was a 1997 Chips Quinn Scholar, which recognizes the best minority journalism students in US colleges. In Nigeria, Pastor Ita served as the Director of Press Affairs to former Cross River State Governor, Chief Clement Ebri, and as the Chairman of the Cross River State Female Football (Pelican Stars) Committee, He also served as the Cross River State Coordinator of Football, and the Cross River State Sole Administrator of Football, as well as a FIFA Media Manager at the 2009 U-17 FIFA World Cup soccer in Nigeria. Ita earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Howard University in Washington, D.C. and a master’s degree in health administration from the University of Cincinnati. Ohio. He is the author of UNBOUNDED, a fascinating memoir that chronicles his astonishing journalism journey from posting handwritten stories on the laboratory window of a village high school to exposing crime and corruption in the dreaded southeast Washington, D.C. neighborhoods and Maryland municipalities.