Career & Expertise
Multi-award-winning investigative journalist Tobore Mit Ovuorie specialises in development and data journalism that is solution-driven, as well as multimedia storytelling.
Her groundbreaking five-part series, “How Nigeria “Kills” Children Living With HIV,” shed light on the stigma and discrimination that still plague children living with HIV in Nigeria while also helping to break the taboo around the disease in the educational community.
In June 2019, they designated her as a President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Hero.
For her coverage of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, she was honored in December 2018 by UNAIDS and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS.
She graduated from Chimamanda Adichie’s Farafina Creative Writing Residential Workshop in 2016 and she also released “I Am Not To Be Sold!” which she referred to as Nigeria’s first human trafficking anthology.
She was a Senior Investigative Reporter/Health Editor of Premium Times and a two-time winner of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Journalism.
She is the founder of the Media Initiative Against Human Trafficking and Women Rights Abuse (MIAHWRA), which she founded in October 2016, and Tobore Ovuorie Productions, which she founded in 2018.
Best way to utilise skills
We can contact her to provide insights on issues relating to healthcare delivery in Nigeria, HIV among children, and movie production.
