Allwell Okpi joined Africa Check as researcher and community manager in January 2018. As a trained journalist, his newsroom experience spans eight years: reporting and editing at NEXT Newspaper and PUNCH Newspaper. Allwell has also led content development for leading strategic communications consulting firms in West Africa – C&F Porter Novelli and Chain Reactions Nigeria (an Edelman affiliate) – and in those roles, helped develop and deploy strategies for consumer marketing, advocacy campaigns, media relations and crisis communication. He has a masters degree in marketing and communication from Rome Business School; a bachelors degree in geology from the Federal University of Technology Minna; and certificates in digital journalism from Reuters; public relations from the Metropolitan School of Business and Management, UK; persuasive writing and public speaking from Harvard University, and leadership from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
Allwell Okpi
Position
Researcher & community manager
Country
Nigeria
Twitter handle
@allwellokpi