{"id":2429,"date":"2023-03-20T02:29:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T01:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/?post_type=rwexperts&#038;p=2429"},"modified":"2024-10-04T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:10:22","slug":"meet-chiemelie-ezeobi","status":"publish","type":"rwexperts","link":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/rwexperts\/meet-chiemelie-ezeobi\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiemelie Ezeobi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Education &amp; Certifications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has a BSc ad Master\u2019s degree in Mass Communication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Career &amp; Expertise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chiemelie Ezeobi works for THISDAY Newspapers. She worked as Defence and Crime Reporter since she joined the organisation in 2010 as a youth corp member until June 8, 2018, when she received a quadruple promotion from reporter to Group Features Editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has also acted as a temporary stringer for Times Magazine South Africa and BBC Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has won several awards, among which are the Security Watch Africa Award for Best Investigative Reporter, held in South Africa in 2013. She won the same award in 2015, this time in Houston, Texas, USA. She would again repeat that feat in Ghana in March 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security Watch Africa inducted her into the Board of International Juries, a position she has held since 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2018, she was awarded the Chevron scholarship to study at Pan Atlantic University for the Advanced Writing Skills Awareness course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Skills Utilisation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is an invaluable source on security reporting and the security forces.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4179,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"rwsectors":[360],"class_list":["post-2429","rwexperts","type-rwexperts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rwsectors-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts\/2429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rwexperts"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts\/2429\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"rwsectors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwsectors?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}