Co-founder and Director of the Policy and Public Relations Advisory Group at Everbrighter Communications
Uche Ozurumba Adighibe
Strategic Communications • Media Strategy and Advisory
He is a purpose-driven strategic communications expert and media advisory consultant with proven results and vast experience over the past 15 years, delivering successful ventures in leadership and highly sensitive roles across the public, private, and development sectors.
Has held various high-level executive roles as a core Strategic Communications, Media and Public Relations Stakeholder expert for more than a decade, navigating key roles across Government in the Public sector working recently in The Presidency of Nigeria, where he held the role of Special Assistant to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and also formerly worked at one time as the Technical Assistant to the Honorable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources at the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources of Nigeria). His private sector experiences span opinion polling, research, and information technology.
Over the past 5 years, he has worked on major programmes developed and executed leading to successful outcomes in the Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. These programmes have focused on the niche areas of Strategic Communications, Media and Public Relations Stakeholder Engagement, Opinion Research, Data Analysis and Intelligence Analytics in the main media subsectors and security management for the Presidency of Nigeria.
As a former Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on Strategic Communications under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, he worked with a high-level Presidential Communications Team that developed and executed a media and communication strategy that enhanced and improved the public perception of the Presidency of Nigeria.
In 2019, he concluded a key top management job role having worked as a Technical Assistant on Media/New Media to the former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and later Honorable Minister of State, Petroleum Resources of Nigeria from 2015 to 2019. In delivering his key targets, he worked with a core management team to provide key media and communication advisory to the Office of the Honorable Minister of State, Petroleum Resources and senior decision-makers in the now defunct Department for International Development (DFID) United Kingdom in the coordination, monitoring and evaluation of media stakeholder engagement for the Office with a view improving transparency and enhancing positive perception of Nigeria’s Oil and Gas sector.
In 2012, Uche worked as Head of Corporate Communications and External Affairs of NOIPolls Limited, West Africa’s foremost opinion polling and research company where he worked with the Company’s management team in the development and execution of a corporate media strategy for public opinion management and shaping stakeholder perception for the tripod areas of Government, private and development sector organisations respectively.
Over the past decade, he has built a fine reputation in the key areas of project planning, media and public relations strategy development and execution, crisis management communication, and online and public reputation management. These areas of key valuable and verifiable experience garnered over time puts him in the right standing to offer strategic communication and public relations advisory services, as well as expert media consultancy and training services while proffering practical solutions that will aid organisational and Government decisions to enhance growth, productivity and profitability.
He was most recently the Managing Partner at The Radah Media Global Communications Limited, a Strategic Communications and Media Company that has established an enviable track record in the delivery of set targets through the curation of bespoke media tool kits which has led to the design, development and execution of media briefs that have delivered excellent and verifiable results for clients.
He transitioned from the Company to his current role as Co-founder and Director of the Policy and Public Relations Advisory Group at Everbrighter Communications™ where he oversees the design, development and supervision of the execution of the Company’s public relations and publishing policy process, ensuring the Company’s policy work advances the overall vision of the organisation and positively impacts humanity.
He spends his leisure time meeting people of diverse cultural backgrounds and travelling. Delights in reading online news and articles, writing motivational articles and speeches, and loves mentoring people on public speaking and anchoring corporate and social events.