Ekene Odigwe

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Senior Presenter, Radio Nigeria
Senior Presenter, Radio Nigeria Enugu

Nigeria

Environment, Media, Opinion and Editorial, Politics

As seen in: Radio Nigeria, Radio Nigeria Enugu, Medium, Soundcloud, Gnet Radio, National Catholic Reporter, Sun News Online, Nigerian Tribune, TheCable, This Is Africa (ZA), Ripples Nigeria, Prompt News Online and

Covers: Fintech & Digital Finance · Broadcast & Public Media · Enterprise Governance · Digital Transformation · Cross-Border Operations · Civic Technology · Public Sector Policy

TedxSpeaker | Communications & PR Strategist | #Remote Project Mgmt Scaling Global Platforms | #NFT, #DAO Leadership, #PR, #Community Growth & #Engagement #Web3

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Ekene Odigwe’s Biography

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James Ekene Odigwe is a broadcast journalist and senior operations executive with 14 years of national-scale leadership across public infrastructure, regulated fintech platforms, and digital governance systems.
As Head of Operations at the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria — the country's statutory national broadcaster operating 37 stations across all six geopolitical zones with a combined reach of 200 million citizens — he holds full operational accountability for broadcast infrastructure, …

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Evolution of Crisis Communications: Pandemic Strategies & Innovations | Pandemic Pulse: The Evolu...

Explore the evolution of crisis communications during COVID-19: Nigeria's radio storytelling, hybrid digital …

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Blockchain and African storytelling: Reclaiming Narratives - MozartCultures

Discover how blockchain is transforming African storytelling, from Nollywood's fight against piracy to #EndSA…

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Ekene Odigwe: To Fact-Check or Not: The Importance of Media and Information Literacy | Ekene Odig...

Ekene Odigwe Media Practitioner Ekene is rounding off Social Media in Public Relations from the National Univ…

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Fintech Thought Leadership: Blockchain & NFT Insights

Explore my innovative work as a Fintech journalist on Medium, where cutting-edge analysis meets impactful st…

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ENDING AN AGE-LONG PROBLEM: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM)

emale Genital Mutilation (FGM) refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female exte…

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BUILDING SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV

an HIV diagnosis is a traumatic experience that significantly changes a person's life. When society understan…

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Pandemic Pulse: The Evolution of Crisis Communications

Mar 28, 2025 |

By Ekene Odigwe

| mozartcultures.com

The global healthcare system faced extensive testing before the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the evolution of crisis communications, fundamentally transforming social emergency messaging. Public health reporting underwent breakthroughs as fragmented messaging and hyper-localized campaigns emerged as critical innovations.

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Blockchain and African storytelling: Reclaiming Narratives

Mar 26, 2025 |

By Ekene Odigwe

| mozartcultures.com

Onye nwe eziokwu served as truth keeper in our Nigerian village, according to a family story told to me by my grandmother. The villagers used the ukwa tree as their meeting place for disputes because each participant left their mark with a stick while the ground served as an authentication system for everyone to see. Blockchain technology has evolved beyond its initial form into an open-source ukwa tree which inscribes facts through lines of code accessible to everyone while belonging to no one.

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Afrofuture DAO Tokenomics: A launch Token for African Creatives

Feb 20, 2022 |

By Ekene Odigwe

| mozartcultures.com

Home » Art » Afrofuture DAO Tokenomics: A launch Token for African Creatives Introduction to Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) DAO can be architecturally decentralised (independent actors run different nodes) and are usually geographically decentralised (subject to different jurisdictions), but they are logically centralised (the protocol). That is what could be said of this new social token DAO that is bridging Web 3 and African cultural assets.

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Presenting a youth focused programme then I was moved to produce and cover arts and entertainment, Now am a development Journalist

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, I have—a cherished rite of passage that began in my first year at university. I remember the unmistakable clack and rhythm of the keys as they etched my early thoughts onto paper. That typewriter was more than just a machine; it was an invitation to explore language, to craft narratives with deliberate precision, and to honor the tactile beauty of storytelling. It taught me to value every word and to see the art of communication as both a discipline and a form of creative expression—skills that continue to inform my journey in digital journalism and multimedia storytelling.

How is social media changing news?

The advent of social media has created a whole new horizon for the News cycle and News dissemination, this development has made everyone a content creator, news editor and citizen journalist. This trend is a wildfire burning everything and everyone in its wake. Mainstream media are creating social media account and channels to reach new demographics and also keep up with their revenue. Political allies and fanatics now hijack it to ruin their opponents and settle their disagreements. Hence, all this has resulted in the easier spread of falsehood, the US and Nigeria like rest of the global community as a multi-diverse, ethnic, religious and political world had and is still experiencing this fire.

Awards

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FiNext Award

2025 - Blockchain

Honored for demonstrating excellence in finance with a focus on blockchain Public relations innovations and communications.