Barely a month after he left the services of the World Food Programme(WPP) where for over four years, he provided communication, advocacy, graphics and multimedia services in the capacity of Communications Associate, Prince Adedji Ademigbuji has pitched his tent with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Ademigbuji joins Ocha as National Public Information Officer. OCHA is a United Nations body established in December 1991 by the General Assembly to strengthen the international response to complex emergencies and natural disasters. It is the successor to the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator (UNDRO).Its madate among others, include coordinating humanitarian response, policy development and humanitarian advocacy. Its activities include organizing and monitoring humanitarian funding, advocacy, policy-making, and information exchange to facilitate rapid-response teams for emergency relief.
In his new position, Ademigbuji is expected to lead the day-to-day country or regional communications operations to include participating in coordination of accessibility substantive and administrative activities of the unit, interpreting and disseminating policy, providing procedural advice, improving reporting systems, handling operational and administrative queries, preparing budget submissions, establishing and/or coordinating training programmes and monitoring and evaluating results. He is also expected to coordinate and direct a team of public information staff as well as mentor and supervise the work of junior officers on specific projects, among others.
Ademigbuji started his journalism career in 2001 as an intern after completing a National Diploma Programme from The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State (Nigeria).
In 2006, Adedeji joined the National Standard news magazine. Later that year, he left the National Standard as a senior correspondent to work as a freelance writer for The Sun newspaper. In 2011, Adedeji joined the National Mirror as a business correspondent. After winning the 2013 Social Enterprise Reporting Award (SERA) in the CSR category and the Nigerian Media Merit Awards (NMMA) Coca-Cola Prize in the Brands & Marketing category, setting records in the Newspaper Reporter of the Year and Telecom Reporter of the Year categories, he was sought out by The Nation newspaper to handle the paper’s Brands & Marketing pages. In 2014, he emerged one of the two winners of the first Media Awards on Electrical Counterfeiting in Africa for his piece entitled “Checking the menace of fake electrical products.”
In 2001, he bagged a National Diploma in Mass Communication from the Polytechnic, Ibadan and Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication from the Lagos State University in 2008.
