{"id":11474,"date":"2018-04-22T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2018-04-22T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T20:43:08","slug":"breaking-news-nigerian-born-media-expert-chinedu-moghalu-appointed-into-united-nations-world-food-programme-heads-communication-advocacy-for-africa-african-risk-capacity-is-a-specialised-agenc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/breaking-news-nigerian-born-media-expert-chinedu-moghalu-appointed-into-united-nations-world-food-programme-heads-communication-advocacy-for-africa-african-risk-capacity-is-a-specialised-agenc\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: NIGERIAN Born Media Expert, CHINEDU MOGHALU Appointed into UNITED NATIONS World Food Programme…Heads Communication & Advocacy for Africa *African Risk Capacity is a Specialised Agency of African Union that provides African sovereigns with capacity building services for early warning, contingency planning and risk finance *Task to lead efforts in ensuring that work of ARC in responding to challenges of climate change, natural disaster risk management is strategically communicated to the Member States *Earlier worked served as Regional Head of Nigerian Export-Import Bank for the Southeast, Delta states in Nigeria; Head of Corporate Communication Division at its headquarters in Abuja *Holds Masters degree in Communications for Development, other degrees in Political Science and Law from University of Nigeria, Nsukka and University of Lagos *HE’S an active member of the Nigerian Bar Association, International Bar Association, International Public Relations Association and sits on the Board of Chigari Foundation BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF"},"content":{"rendered":"

BREAKING NEWS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

NIGERIAN Born Media Expert, CHINEDU MOGHALU Appointed into UNITED NATIONS World Food Programme…Heads Communication & Advocacy for Africa<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

*African Risk Capacity is a Specialised Agency of African Union that provides<\/strong><\/span>
\nAfrican sovereigns with capacity building services for early warning, contingency<\/strong><\/span>
\nplanning and risk finance<\/strong><\/span>
\n*Task to lead efforts in ensuring that work of ARC in responding to challenges of climate change, natural disaster risk management is strategically communicated to the Member States <\/strong><\/span>
\n*Earlier worked served as Regional Head of Nigerian Export-Import Bank for the Southeast, Delta states in Nigeria; Head of Corporate Communication Division at its headquarters in Abuja<\/strong><\/span>
\n*Holds Masters degree in Communications for Development, other degrees in Political Science and Law from University of Nigeria, Nsukka and University of Lagos<\/strong><\/span>
\n*HE’S an active member of the Nigerian Bar Association, International Bar Association, International Public Relations Association and sits on the Board of <\/strong><\/span>
\nChigari Foundation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF<\/strong><\/p>\n

HE’S A SUCCESS STORY TO NIGERIAN COMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA INDUSTRIES, AS WELL AS THE LEGAL SECTOR IN AFRICA. It did not come to many as a surprise to many as Nigerian born CHINEDU MOGHALU was appointed yesterday as Head, Communications & Advocacy for the Africa<\/strong><\/span>
\nRisk Capacity (ARC) \/ United Nations World Food Programme with immediate effect in Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Naija Standard<\/span> received a press statement which states that in this position, Moghalu will be leading efforts to ensure that the work of ARC in responding to the challenges of climate change and natural disaster risk management is strategically communicated to the Member States and the international<\/span><\/strong>
\ncommunity in a way that secures commitment and boosts resource mobilization.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

For the records, the African Risk Capacity is a Specialised Agency of the African Union that provides African sovereigns with capacity building services for early warning, contingency planning and risk finance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ARC is a Specialised Agency of the African Union that provides African sovereigns with capacity building services for early warning, contingency planning and risk finance towards protecting the livelihoods of their vulnerable citizens against the impact of natural disasters through home-grown, innovative, cost-effective, timely and sustainable solutions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to this position, Moghalu, at various<\/span> times, worked as the Regional Head<\/span><\/strong>
\nof Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) for the Southeast and Delta states in<\/strong><\/span>
\nNigeria; as well the Head of the Corporate Communication Division at its<\/strong><\/span>
\nheadquarters in Abuja.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Before joining NEXIM Bank, Mr. Moghalu had more than 10 years career with various United Nations agencies, including the ILO and the Global Fund for AIDS,<\/strong><\/span>
\nTuberculosis and Malaria.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For his education, Chinedu Moghalu holds M.Sc. degree in Communications for Development, and other degrees in Political Science, and Law from University of Nigeria, Nsukka and University of Lagos, in Nigeria.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Moghalu is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, International Bar Association, International Public Relations Association (IPRA), and sits on the Board of the Chigari Foundation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BREAKING NEWS: NIGERIAN Born Media Expert, CHINEDU MOGHALU Appointed into UNITED NATIONS World Food Programme…Heads Communication & Advocacy for Africa *African Risk Capacity is a Specialised Agency of African Union that provides African sovereigns with capacity building services for early warning, contingency planning and risk finance *Task to lead efforts in ensuring that work of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}