About Me
I am best remembered as the Nigerian journalist who spent five days in a police cell as a suspect and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, after which the authorities contemplated arresting me, or the journalist who drove the equivalent of a stolen vehicle from Abuja to Lagos, passing through a whopping 86 checkpoints in a journey of over 1,600km that lasted a cumulative 28hours 17minutes.
An Animal Scientist by discipline and journalist by profession, I have over 10 years of fulltime professional media experience.
I am currently the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ). At The Cable, The International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) and Sahara Reporters, where I worked as Editor, I oversaw all editorial processes of the online newspapers.