Ijeoma Onyeator

Ijeoma Noeline Onyeator (, born 1976) is a Kenyan journalist, news anchor and media personality of 24-hour news Channels Television in Nigeria.

Family and education Onyeator was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Her father was lawyer at The Hague, Uche Uko, and she has four siblings. Her mother was a librarian.

Onyeator studied for a bachelor's degree at the University of Lagos (Unilag). She studied for a master's degree in Media, Communication and Technology at Brunel University of London in the United Kingdom. She earned a PhD in Media and Communication at the Pan African University in Lagos, Nigeria and was the first female recipient of the Doctor of Philosophy degree in this subject. She received the British Chevening Scholarship for her doctoral studies.

Career Onyeator began her career on the media relations team of Shell Nigeria (SPDC). In 2019, she reported on the death of her 23-year-old colleague Precious Owolabi, who died when hit by a stray bullet during a protest in Abuja. Onyeator has also interviewed Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Onyeator spoke at the Gender, Security and Election Coverage panel at the 2018 African Women in the Media Conference. She spoke about "fake news" in 2019 at a workshop organised by the Centre for Leadership in Journalism of the School of Media and Communication (SMC) and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, asking for news platforms to monitor themselves in the era of social media. She is a member of the British National Union of Journalists

In 2023, Onyeator contributed a chapter to the book Nigerian Media Industries in the Era of Globalization.

Awards

Producer of the Year at the Corporate Livewire Awards (2023)