About

I am currently a project manager at Code for Africa, serving as editor of the African Academy for Open Source Investigations (AAOSI). In this position, I coordinate fellowships, story grants, and collaborations involving investigative journalists across Africa and see to the publication of in-depth OSINT investigations by relevant parties. I previously headed the investigations desk at HumAngle and was an investigative reporter at the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR). My journalism has typically focused on conflict, disinformation, accountability, human rights, and the environment. I am passionate about innovative and human-centred storytelling. I am equally very fond of archival journalism, data, OSINT investigations, political humour, puzzles, and technology.

I have a law degree from the University of Ibadan. In my spare time, I volunteer at the Abuja Hub of the Global Shapers Community and for Archivi.ng. I am also the founder and editor of Punocracy, a platform dedicated to promoting satirical literacy and the publication of political humour, and Chronycles, a platform dedicated to human-centred and mundane storytelling.

At the ICIR, I published over 400 reports, including mostly investigative stories, feature articles, data analyses, and fact-checks. My investigations took me to five of the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria, as well as communities in the neighbouring Benin Republic for a cross-border report on child trafficking.

In 2020, I joined HumAngle, a conflict-reporting media outlet, serving as a Senior Investigative Reporter and then as Investigations Editor. In this role, I supervised the implementation of long-term reporting projects and led a team of journalists and fixers to ensure that conflict situations and humanitarian crises across Nigeria were reported accurately and deeply.

I was the pioneering lead for the organisation’s transitional justice reporting project that highlighted issues surrounding displacement, prolonged military detention, reconciliation, deradicalisation, rehabilitation, and reintegration, as they are connected to the Boko Haram crisis. I was led a programme that amplified cases of missing persons in the region.

At HumAngle, I published hundreds of articles as well as contributed to tons of video documentaries and podcasts that especially covered various aspects of the Boko Haram insurgency and brewing terrorism in the northwest region, with a particular focus on the impacts of these crises on individual lives.

I have received several honours and have benefited from some fellowship programmes. I was a 2019 fact-checking fellow of Africa Check, 2020 fellow of Dubawa, and am an alumnus of the British Council’s Future News Worldwide programme. Between 2018 and 2019, I participated in the ICIR’s Open Contract and Human Rights reporting fellowships.

As a student, I received dozens of awards in both national and international writing and speaking competitions.

Professional awards and honours

• Runner-up, 2024 CJID Excellence in Journalism Award (Fact-check category).
• Nominee, 2024 One World Media Awards (Print category).
• Finalist, 2024 Livingston Awards (International Reporting category).
• Nominee, 2023 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award.
• Nominee, 2023 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award.
• Winner, 2023 Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling.
• Winner, 2022 African Fact-checking Award (Working Journalist category).
• Winner, 2022 PwC Media Excellence Award for Business and Economy Reporting.
• Co-winner, 2022 Inaugural Insight Award for Visual Journalism by the Institute for Non-profit News.
• Runner-up, 2022 Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) in education reporting.
• Winner, 2021 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting (online category).
• Nominee, 2021 African Fact-checking Awards.
• Runner-up, 2020 Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) in education reporting.
• Finalist, 2020 Isu Elihle Awards on child-centred reporting.
• Finalist, 2020 PwC Media Excellence Awards (Business and Economy).
• Winner, 2019 West Africa Media Excellence Award for Best ICT and Telecommunications Report.
• Winner, 2018 Budeshi Datathon Writers’ Challenge.
• Winner, 2018 Alfred Opubo Prize for Opinion.