By Ayo Jones
Veteran ICT journalist, Reuben Muoka resumed duty yesterday (Monday, June 20, 2022) as the Director of Public Affairs of the Nigerian Communications Commission ( NCC).
Muoka, an astute public relations practitioner replaces Dr. Ikechulkwu Adinde, who has been moved to the special duty unit of the Commission.
It was a homecoming of sorts for Muoka who worked as a principal officer in the Public Affairs unit for several years under Engineer Ernest Ndukwe and the late Dr. Eugene Juwah. He was sent to the special duty and economic policy and analysis departments at some point during the first term of Professor Umar Danbatta as EVC.
He was head of media and public relations, from 2009, until 2015, when Danbatta resumed as EVC.
Before joining NCC some 16 years ago, Muoka worked with the Vanguard, where he and Okoh Aihe, who recently retired from the NCC, ran the paper’s Hi-Tech pages and reported ICT for several years. He left Vanguard to work at MTS First Mobile, a pioneer company in mobile communication in Nigeria, as Corporate Affairs Manager.
Muoka has first and second degrees in Mass Communication. He was once chairman of the League of Communications Correspondents, a beat association created in 1988 to help ICT journalists become professional ICT reporters.
*With Agency reports