ImpactHouse Centre for Development Communication (ImpactHouse), publishers of Development Diaries, has appointed John Andah as Executive Director of the nonprofit.
Development Diaries reports that Andah, who is also the Managing Editor of this news platform, takes over from Adenike Arigbabu, who has transitioned exclusively into her role as a member of the ImpactHouse Board of Trustees.
Andah comes with almost 15 years of combined communications and journalism experience in print, broadcast, and mainly online media, and has spent the last seven years of his journalism career as an editor, working with dynamic teams of reporters and researchers to produce more than 15,000 reports on human rights, education, health, politics/governance, etc. across Nigeria and Africa.
‘He has been an integral part of our team for some years, and we are confident that he will bring strong leadership, vision, and experience to this role’, the Founder and Chairman of the ImpactHouse Board of Trustees, Femi Aderibigbe, said in a statement.
As a development communication proponent, Andah has actively participated in advocacy campaigns geared towards fostering social change for sustainable development in Nigeria and Africa.
He managed a vibrant team of reporters that produced over 8,000 reports for the Covidhub.ng platform in a 2021 campaign against the spread of misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic. He was also an integral member of the communications team that drove the #EducationNOW9ja campaign in 2022 and 2023.
‘I am excited and honoured to work with the highly dynamic and dedicated team at ImpactHouse in this capacity to drive our communication for development programmes in civic participation and good governance, media and civil society development, gender equity and justice, education and human rights in Nigeria and Africa’, Andah said in his immediate response to this appointment.
He holds a Master of Science degree in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and a Bachelor of Science degree also in Mass Communication from Kogi State University, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria.
Also transitioning into new roles at the organisation are Gift Ejeh-Ojima and Chinomso Momoh. Ejeh-Ojima has been appointed as the Programmes Manager while Momoh now heads the media and communications department as Outreach and Communications Specialist.
A founding and active member of the Girls Get Equal campaign and the Anti-Human Trafficking campaign of Plan International Nigeria, our Programmes Manager holds a Master of Science degree in Development Economics from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Madonna University, Nigeria.
Momoh is a development journalist, media and communications specialist with nine years of experience in full-time TV broadcasting and editing – including providing content and presenting a housing development programme on AIT and TVC, and working as a news editor.
The senior reporter, who produces news reports with powerful narratives that provide our readers with calls to action, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Literary Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsuka, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism.
ImpactHouse is a tech-driven nonprofit using data and storytelling to drive uniform understanding of development messages in Africa. The organisation was established to aid government-citizen action for good governance, gender equity and justice, education and human rights, and media and civil society development.
