Dr. Omoniyi P. Ibietan

Dr. Omoniyi P. Ibietan is a social entrepreneur and activist, journalist, writer, author, academic as well as communication and multistakeholder relationship management specialist. He is the head of media relations at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and secretary-general of the African Public Relations Association (APRA). 

At NCC, he oversees key aspects of the corporate communication strategy and he was earlier the frontline liaison officer of the Commission with the National Assembly, during which he set standards in legislative relations management.

He was regional media researcher to Freedom House Nigeria Project, and earlier in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, he was Special Media Advisor to the Federal Minister of Information and Communication, during which he popularised the use of new media in public communication. 

He holds a diploma in journalism with distinction from the Moscow-Based International Institute of Journalism, earned a BA and MA in Communication Arts and Communication & Language Arts from the Universities of Uyo and Ibadan in Nigeria, respectively, graduating atop his classes, and obtained a Ph.D. in Communication from the North-West University in South Africa, specialising in political communication. He is IP3 certified regulation specialist and holds a mini MBA in telecommunications from NEOTELIS in Paris.

He is a fellow of both the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) and the African Public Relations Association (APRA). He is also a member of the African Council for Communication Education (ACCE), an Associate Registered Practitioner of Advertising (arpa) and member of the International Institute of Communications (IIC), the world’s only policy debating platform for the converged communications industry. 

His interests in communication scholarship include patterns of political communication through new media and in non-virtual contexts; media and culture studies; and the philosophical, theoretical and normative foundations of communication in relation to interpersonal communication management, democracy and freedom. He is on the faculty for post-graduate programmes at the Italy-based Rome Business School.

His first book, SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY, AND VOTING BEHAVIOUR IN NIGERIA (Washington/Abuja: Premium Times Books) was published in May 2023.

He is considerably travelled within Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia.

He is married, has children, plays tennis and scrabble, loves travelling, reading and writing, and loves meeting people, especially people from other cultures.