Tommy Odemwingie, veteran multimedia journalist, joins CTN

Capital Times News is pleased to announce that Tommy Odemwingie, a former features editor of The Guardian, has joined the online news outfit as chair of the editorial board.

Starting out as a producer at the Ibadan zonal station of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Mr Odemwingie also worked for the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Benin in sports and news, before he joined The Guardian in its early days as a staff correspondent, becoming its features editor.

Mr Odemwingie also brings to CTN deep knowledge of development, having worked for such international organisations as WHO, UNICEF, UNODC and UNFPA, as well as programnes of bilateral agencies, such as USAID, UKAID.

Notable for his writing and issues-focused advocacy skills, and incisive analyses of politics, Mr Odemwingie obtained a BA in English from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife and earned the British and Commonwealth Office (Chevening) scholarship to obtain a Master’s degree in Rural Social Development at the University of Reading, England.